{"id":3540,"date":"2006-06-29T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2006-06-29T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T10:58:00","slug":"four-tough-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Four Tough Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get Religion has offered a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=1709\">Four Tough Questions<\/a>, with a view to discerning whether someone is a liberal or conservative.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Was this a real \u2014 even if mysterious \u2014 event in real time? Did it really happen?<\/p>\n<p><span>SN: Yes. Tho&#8217; there is room for a much longer answer clearing up ambiguities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(2) Is salvation found through Jesus Christ, alone? Is Jesus the Way or a way?<\/p>\n<p><span>SN: Yes &#8211; but I don&#8217;t think they have to call Jesus BY that name (see <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/some-thoughts-on-gandhi.html\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(3) Is sex outside of the Sacrament of Marriage a sin? The key word is sin.<\/p>\n<p><span>SN: Yes, but I don&#8217;t see it as necessarily grievous, especially compared to the sin that we are all saturated in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(4) Should Anglican leaders ban the worship, by name, of other gods at their altars?<\/p>\n<p><span>SN: Absolutely! It boggles the mind that this is even a question.<br \/><span><br \/>[You can tell that I am catching up on my blogroll today &#8211; nice way to spend the morning of my day off :o) ]<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Religion has offered a very interesting Four Tough Questions, with a view to discerning whether someone is a liberal or conservative. (1) Are biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus accurate? Was this a real \u2014 even if mysterious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-V6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}