{"id":3504,"date":"2014-06-23T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2014-06-23T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:02:30","slug":"the-spirits-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit&#8217;s role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Philemon 1:3<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why does this salutation not mention the Holy Spirit? Is Paul&#8217;s understanding of the Trinity deficient?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all. The Father&#8217;s role is external. The Son&#8217;s role is external. The greeting is, in one sense, external, coming to Philemon from the outside. The Spirit&#8217;s role, by contrast, is internal, dwelling within the heart of Philemon and every believer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philemon 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Why does this salutation not mention the Holy Spirit? Is Paul&#8217;s understanding of the Trinity deficient? Not at all. The Father&#8217;s role is external. The Son&#8217;s role is external. The greeting is, in one sense, external, coming to Philemon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spirit&#8217;s role&#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\/3504"}],"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=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}