{"id":8788,"date":"2020-06-22T15:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:49:26","slug":"john-locke-or-john-calvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8788","title":{"rendered":"JOHN LOCKE OR JOHN CALVIN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>A friend asked about the individual in Christianity. Here is what I dashed off:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is a big topic of course so here is where I typically begin. We now live on the other side of the Enlightenment. It sought to make the self sovereign. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cself as individual\u201d idea emerges which is a novel one for understanding personhood. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Westerners now look at the Bible through a lens that over privileges the individual (literally undivided one). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, every single person is precious, a sinner, and in need of redemption, but groups and various associations are talked about a lot in the Bible. Groups of people are talked about both favorably and unfavorably. In those groups when one sins (Achan at Ai) all suffer. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, there is still individual accountability per Ez 18, but nations will also be judged. Americans do not have a great way to understand all this other than those who believe large sections of the Old Testament no longer applies to Christians. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m afraid our exegesis is at times more beholden to John Locke than John Calvin!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked about the individual in Christianity. Here is what I dashed off: It is a big topic of course so here is where I typically begin. We now live on the other side of the Enlightenment. It sought to make the self sovereign. The \u201cself as individual\u201d idea emerges which is a novel [&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":[31,3,24,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-bible","category-bible-reading","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788","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=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}