{"id":28493,"date":"2015-12-04T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28493"},"modified":"2015-12-04T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:22:36","slug":"new-testament-316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/new-testament-316.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament 316"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28494\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-The_Christian_Martyrs_Last_Prayer.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28494\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-The_Christian_Martyrs_Last_Prayer-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Christians v. Lions\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sneering article on the Huffington Post is unpleasant, yes, but things could be considerably worse.<br>\u201cThe Christian Martyrs\u2019 Last Prayer\u201d<br>Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me (ca. 1883)<br>Wikimedia CC, public domain; click to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/luke\/22.35-38?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 22:35-38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>a) \u00a0Jesus seems to be speaking metaphorically here, but his disciples misunderstand and take him literally.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>b) \u00a0He\u2019s definitely predicting an imminent time when society and dominant opinion will be hostile to the ancient Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>c) \u00a0We should never have expected that society and dominant opinion would be friendly to the modern, restored Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Luke 22:35-38 \u00a0 a) \u00a0Jesus seems to be speaking metaphorically here, but his disciples misunderstand and take him literally. \u00a0 b) \u00a0He\u2019s definitely predicting an imminent time when society and dominant opinion will be hostile to the ancient Church. \u00a0 c) \u00a0We should never have expected that society and dominant opinion would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Testament 316<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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