{"id":3583,"date":"2014-07-19T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2014-07-19T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T21:37:15","slug":"a-dead-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"A dead faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>James 2:21<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Abraham wasn&#8217;t justified because he was a &#8220;good person&#8221; who went around doing good deeds for people.&nbsp; He was justified by faith, a faith manifested when he willingly offered up his own son Isaac upon the altar.<\/p>\n<p>A faith that does not result in obedience, or at least a desire to be obedient, is a dead faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? Abraham wasn&#8217;t justified because he was a &#8220;good person&#8221; who went around doing good deeds for people.&nbsp; He was justified by faith, a faith manifested when he willingly offered up his own son Isaac upon the altar. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A dead faith&#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\/3583"}],"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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}