{"id":2854,"date":"2013-03-26T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2013-04-06T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T12:51:28","slug":"the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"The essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, \u201cWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201d\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>So they said, \u201cSome say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d He said to them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Simon Peter answered and said, \u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Matthew 16:13-16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This simple yet very profound statement is the essence of the Christian faith.\u00a0 It is at the heart a conviction about a Person; and not\u00a0a set of cleverly-worded philosophical formulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, \u201cWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0So they said, \u201cSome say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d He said to them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d \u00a0Simon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The essence&#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\/2854"}],"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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}