{"id":2427,"date":"2013-10-04T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2013-10-03T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:16:10","slug":"talking-to-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"TALKING TO AN ATHEIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 83px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyatheistquote.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/atheist.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was speaking with a well-known atheist who was ready for me to use the typical arguments for the existence of God. \u00a0I steered clear and took another approach. \u00a0Over the next few days, I will share the things I mentioned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first is the &#8220;ring of truth&#8221; which comes from reading the Bible. \u00a0For example, you have stories of &#8220;delicate women boiling their own children&#8221; during a time when food was scarce. \u00a0You also have a woman cut into twelve pieces as a sign of God&#8217;s judgment, not surprisingly during the time of the Judges. \u00a0And then there is Mary Magdalene who is the first witness of Christ&#8217;s resurrection. \u00a0If you were making up the story you would have powerful religious leaders probably from Jerusalem attesting the miracle of Jesus&#8217;s resurrection, but instead you have a formerly demon-possessed woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking with a well-known atheist who was ready for me to use the typical arguments for the existence of God. \u00a0I steered clear and took another approach. \u00a0Over the next few days, I will share the things I mentioned. The first is the &#8220;ring of truth&#8221; which comes from reading the Bible. \u00a0For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}