{"id":3910,"date":"2015-09-19T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2015-09-19T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T19:06:35","slug":"true-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"True Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many seeming Christians, she could not divorce her mind from thinking of belief as a framework of viewpoints &#8212; social, political, philosophical, and theoretical; none of which the Lord had anywhere in his mind when he said, &#8220;Repent and <em>believe<\/em> in the Gospel.&#8221;  True belief consists in no cognitive convictions, no matter how pious, no matter how biblically correct, but rather in <em>life<\/em> as it is <em>lived<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George MacDonald, <em>Knowing the Heart of God<\/em>, p. 75, quoting from <em>The Landlady&#8217;s Master<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many seeming Christians, she could not divorce her mind from thinking of belief as a framework of viewpoints &#8212; social, political, philosophical, and theoretical; none of which the Lord had anywhere in his mind when he said, &#8220;Repent and believe in the Gospel.&#8221; True belief consists in no cognitive convictions, no matter how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}