{"id":8911,"date":"2020-08-20T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:19:27","slug":"my-vote-while-living-far-east-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8911","title":{"rendered":"MY VOTE&#8230;WHILE LIVING FAR EAST OF EDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>The following represents my opinion, and mine alone.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>In light of my recent posts about our current cultural moment this may come as somewhat of a surprise to some of you, so here goes&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>From my early days as a Christian it made sense to me that the Bible has something to say\u00a0<i>to all of life<\/i>. The Bible is certainly not a spiritual cookbook. It is not always straightforward how one should arrive at one&#8217;s decision. The book of Proverbs, and the whole wisdom tradition, showcase this\u00a0sort of nimble discernment. Christians disagree over the proper interpretation and\/or implications of the Bible. And those are Christians who agree on the binding authority of the Scriptures!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I continue to believe that is problematic to have Christians who rationalize or diminish the president&#8217;s rhetoric. That said, I Tim. 2:1,2 is a significant influence on how (at the present) I will vote. My vote is very much influenced by the person and party I believe that best protects religious liberty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following represents my opinion, and mine alone.\u00a0 In light of my recent posts about our current cultural moment this may come as somewhat of a surprise to some of you, so here goes&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 From my early days as a Christian it made sense to me that the Bible has something to say\u00a0to all of [&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":[31,90,43,109,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-character","category-christianity","category-discernmentwisdom","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","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=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}