{"id":7917,"date":"2018-02-23T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2018-02-23T03:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T07:20:28","slug":"billy-graham-tribute-1918-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7917","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham Tribute 1918-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his theological disaster in his later years, I consider him a great man of God. And moreover, his wife Ruth, whom I admire more than him, was the unsung heroine known only to a few, minus Billy himself and the feminists. Here's the tribute from Franklin Graham's FB page to both of them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFranklinGraham%2Fvideos%2F1831302930259213%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are those who are still adamant that Billy's a false teacher. My response to that is easy: attack where the error lies, attack fiercely, but spare a man's history, spare him fairly. No doubt all would admit that he was a great man of God in his younger days.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <strong>learn to boldly pursue, catch and crush all false and slippery doctrines, however,\u00a0be not unctuous for nor against a person's achievement in admiration or in jealous damnation, lest when you fall in his weakness and he repents suddenly and by God's command, rebukes you like that old prophet in Bethel<\/strong> (1 Kings 13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his theological disaster in his later years, I consider him a great man of God. And moreover, his wife Ruth, whom I admire more than him, was the unsung heroine known only to a few, minus Billy himself and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7917\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}