{"id":2257,"date":"2010-07-24T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2015-01-05T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:18:11","slug":"what-if-god-read-your-posts-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/what-if-god-read-your-posts-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"What if God read your posts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"angryman\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/angryman2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"291\" \/>What if<\/em>? (What if 1+1 were 2?)<\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;posts&#8221;, of course, we mean &#8220;posts or comments on posts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What if God read your posts @ Parchment and Pen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/what-if-god-read-your-posts-christian-conduct-on-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read it<\/strong><\/a><strong>, live it.<\/strong> Patton is very insightful there.<\/p>\n<p>I speak as one <strong>sinner<\/strong> to others.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about human nature&#8230; if we&#8217;re convinced that we&#8217;re right about some important subject-matter, we start to think we&#8217;re entitled to <strong>pour scorn and contempt<\/strong> on those without this supposed insight. (This happens especially in matters of politics and religion.) But, we are not so entitled. The fact remains that God <em>loves<\/em> those people, and expects us to. And we would not like to be treated that way.<\/p>\n<p>What way?<strong> Just take notice when others start to get heated up<\/strong> over your comments. It <em>could be<\/em> that you&#8217;ve touched a nerve, i.e. raised a devastating criticism. It <em>could be<\/em> that they&#8217;re spoiled, immature, and over-sensitive. Or, it <em>could be<\/em> that you&#8217;re rude. Judge yourself, lest you be called to account for your words. Usually, we know and take pleasure in online <strong>bomb-throwing\/groin-kicking\/eye-poking<\/strong>. Other times, we&#8217;re just operating with less stringent standards, like we&#8217;d used with friends via email, or face to face. But whether the damage is intentional or not, it&#8217;s damage, and the behavior is thus too rough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if? (What if 1+1 were 2?) By &#8220;posts&#8221;, of course, we mean &#8220;posts or comments on posts&#8221;. Read it, live it. Patton is very insightful there. I speak as one sinner to others. There&#8217;s something about human nature&#8230; if we&#8217;re convinced that we&#8217;re right about some important subject-matter, we start to think we&#8217;re entitled&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/what-if-god-read-your-posts-dale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What if God read your posts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-housekeeping","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20459,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/20459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}