{"id":3135,"date":"2014-09-12T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2014-09-12T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:53:08","slug":"sin-kill-or-be-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2014\/09\/12\/sin-kill-or-be-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin: Kill or Be Killed"},"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><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>Would you call someone a doctor if s\/he only studied and practiced casually and sporadically? Of course not, and you certainly wouldn\u2019t trust them with your life! 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Check out this great post by Tim Challies, Christian, Do You Make It Your Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[11087],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-death-by-living","tag-christianity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sin: Kill or Be Killed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Would you call someone a doctor if s\/he only studied and practiced casually and sporadically? 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