{"id":1620,"date":"2005-09-01T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/that-is-a-false-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T18:58:12","slug":"that-is-a-false-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/that-is-a-false-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"That is a false doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The News-Press: Opinion - Stop funding false religion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050901\/OPINION\/509010428\/1015\">The News-Press: Opinion &#8211; Stop funding false religion<\/a> By CAL THOMAS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Much of what is proclaimed as God&#8217;s will on TV and in fundraising appeals is false religion.<\/strong> People who respond with checks are either ignorant or willfully disobedient to what their spiritual commander-in-chief and the early apostles taught and practiced.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great pronouncements on a Christian&#8217;s relationship to the world is contained in 1 John 2:15-17: &#8220;Do not love the world or anything in the world. &#8230; For everything in the world &#8212; the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does &#8212; comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Too many Christians think if they shout loud enough and gain political strength the world will be improved.<\/strong> That is a false doctrine. I have never seen anyone &#8220;converted&#8221; to a Christian&#8217;s point of view (and those views are not uniform) through political power. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If people who bear the label &#8220;Christian&#8221; want to reduce these embarrassments, which interfere with the proclamation and the hearing of &#8220;true religion,&#8221; they should refrain from sending money to TV preachers and contribute more to their local church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News-Press: Opinion &#8211; Stop funding false religion By CAL THOMAS Much of what is proclaimed as God&#8217;s will on TV and in fundraising appeals is false religion. People who respond with checks are either ignorant or willfully disobedient to what their spiritual commander-in-chief and the early apostles taught and practiced. One of the great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/that-is-a-false-doctrine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That is a false doctrine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}