{"id":10617,"date":"2016-08-17T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/toleranceintolerancereligion-emptess-of-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:00","slug":"toleranceintolerancereligion-emptess-of-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/toleranceintolerancereligion-emptess-of-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"TOLERANCE\/INTOLERANCE;\nRELIGION: EMPTESS OF; DIALOGUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cWe will talk to you about religion\u201d is the seemingly kindly offer people give us today. But then they add the disclaimer: \u201cJust do not make religion personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cChristianity is all right,\u201d they assure us, \u201cif you are willing to be tolerant and not try to make something exclusive of your Christian faith.\u201d Most people seem to have come to terms with an acceptance of religion if it does not have the cross of Christ within it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>But as soon as you begin to quote the words of Jesus and the Scriptures that declare there is only one mediator between God and mankind, as soon as you insist that Christ has given us the only way to God through His death and atonement, you are dead!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cThat is bigoted, narrow dogmatism,\u201d they shout. \u201cNo more dialogue with you! You have no place on a panel where we are co-operatively interested in intellectual ferment!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:1\u20138<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Jesus, Author of our Faith,<\/i> 48, 49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe will talk to you about religion\u201d is the seemingly kindly offer people give us today. But then they add the disclaimer: \u201cJust do not make religion personal.\u201d \u201cChristianity is all right,\u201d they assure us, \u201cif you are willing to be tolerant and not try to make something exclusive of your Christian faith.\u201d Most people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/toleranceintolerancereligion-emptess-of-dialogue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TOLERANCE\/INTOLERANCE;<br \/>\nRELIGION: EMPTESS OF; DIALOGUE&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}