{"id":13514,"date":"2016-08-18T00:26:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-worlds-definition-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:26:59","slug":"faith-worlds-definition-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-worlds-definition-of\/","title":{"rendered":"FAITH, WORLD\u2019S DEFINITION OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In the classic movie <i>Miracle on 34th Street<\/i>, Santa Claus utters what much of the world thinks faith is: \u201cFaith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.\u201d In other words, faith is irrational, contrary to experience, logic, and knowledge, and is so even at the most common sense level.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Of course, the Bible knows of no \u201ccommon sense\u201d that is not sensible enough to recognize that God exists and can do anything.481<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street, Santa Claus utters what much of the world thinks faith is: \u201cFaith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.\u201d In other words, faith is irrational, contrary to experience, logic, and knowledge, and is so even at the most common sense level. Of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/faith-worlds-definition-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FAITH, WORLD\u2019S DEFINITION OF&#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-13514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514","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=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}