{"id":310,"date":"2007-04-15T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/calvin-for-apostle\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T16:08:23","slug":"calvin-for-apostle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/calvin-for-apostle\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin for Apostle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many modern &#8220;New Testament&#8221; churches claim that &#8220;they only go by the Word of God,&#8221; that their authority is the New Testament. Except, for the actual New Testament church, their authority was Jesus. The New Testament hadn&#8217;t been written yet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, if you want your authority to be a book and not a person, you&#8217;ll probably need help interpreting the book. If understanding God&#8217;s Word depends on human intelligence, you&#8217;ll probably need more intelligence than you have. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are theologians who could take the place of Jesus in your church. Especially the dead ones, who aren&#8217;t around to protest. Because if John Calvin visited our churches, he might repeat what he said before, &#8220;Since\u2026there are many who are cold and slow in the duties of love\u2026it shows us how far we still are from the light of faith.&#8221; Or perhaps, &#8220;This recognition of him consists more in living experience than in vain and high-flown speculation.&#8221; I hate to think what Martin Luther or John Wesley might say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many modern &#8220;New Testament&#8221; churches claim that &#8220;they only go by the Word of God,&#8221; that their authority is the New Testament. Except, for the actual New Testament church, their authority was Jesus. The New Testament hadn&#8217;t been written yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}