{"id":2591,"date":"2013-01-15T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2013-01-17T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:35:54","slug":"irenaeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Irenaeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;As I live,&#8221; says the Lord God, &#8220;I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 33:11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Turn, turn!\u00a0 Repent and believe the gospel, the ancient gospel.\u00a0 Irenaeus, a late second-century bishop in Gaul, summarizes this gospel for us in his &#8220;Against Heresies&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>[We believe] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents, and birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus our Lord, the glory of the Father &#8220;to gather all things in one&#8221;, and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, according to the will of the invisible Father, &#8220;every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess&#8221; to Him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As I live,&#8221; says the Lord God, &#8220;I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 33:11 Turn, turn!\u00a0 Repent and believe the gospel, the ancient gospel.\u00a0 Irenaeus, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irenaeus&#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\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}