{"id":1611,"date":"2012-05-01T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:39:57","slug":"psalm-82-st-athanasius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 82) St. Athanasius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I said, &#8220;You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What on earth does it mean\u2014\u201cyou are gods\u201d?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t our faith teach that there is only one God, in three Persons? How can human beings be gods?<\/p>\n<p>St. Athanasius, the hero\u00a0of Nicea, said,\u00a0\u201cGod became man so that men might become gods&#8221;.\u00a0 Or, to put it another way, Athansius said that &#8220;we can\u00a0[through the work of the Holy Spirit in us] become by grace what God is by nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said, &#8220;You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.&#8221; What on earth does it mean\u2014\u201cyou are gods\u201d?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t our faith teach that there is only one God, in three Persons? How can human beings be gods? St. Athanasius, the hero\u00a0of Nicea, said,\u00a0\u201cGod became man so that men might become &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 82) St. Athanasius&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}