{"id":3652,"date":"2014-08-17T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2014-08-18T06:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T10:52:17","slug":"3652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Revelation 2:6<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the writings of the early church leaders, Nicolas (one of the seven original deacons of the church in the book of Acts!) came to teach a doctrine of compromise, implying that total separation between Christianity and the practice of occult paganism was not essential.<\/p>\n<p>Here was a man chosen as a deacon because he was &#8220;full of the Holy Spirit&#8221;, and yet he fell away.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t this call into question the so-called doctrine of eternal security?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 2:6 But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. According to the writings of the early church leaders, Nicolas (one of the seven original deacons of the church in the book of Acts!) came to teach a doctrine of compromise, implying that total separation between Christianity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nicolas&#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\/3652"}],"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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}