{"id":11780,"date":"2021-12-20T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2021-12-20T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T07:11:09","slug":"did-calvin-celebrated-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11780","title":{"rendered":"Did Calvin celebrated Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This came up as a question in the Sunday school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, after searching online, I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/fresh-breeze\/2144\/luther-calvin-and-zwingli-on-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther: Pro-Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zwingli: Anti-Christmas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clavin: Neither for nor against<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the article, it's all about the difference between normative vs. regulative principles. Normative: It's okay if Bible did not mention (or forbid); regulative: It's not okay if the Bible did not mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came up as a question in the Sunday school. Interestingly, after searching online, I came across this: Martin Luther: Pro-Christmas Zwingli: Anti-Christmas Clavin: Neither for nor against According to the article, it's all about the difference between normative vs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=11780\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11780\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}