{"id":4283,"date":"2016-03-28T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:08:35","slug":"what-faith-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"What faith says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them.&#8221;  Psalm 118:19<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The promise of the Gospel is <em>for me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Faith does not make it so but merely recognizes that it is so, a recognition that happens because we dare not call Christ a liar when he tells us, on that one momentous occasion, \u201cI baptize you\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n<p>What faith says, fundamentally, is \u201cGod speaks the truth.\u201d Only secondarily, and not fundamentally, faith may also say, \u201cI believe.\u201d But faith may also say, \u201cMy faith is weak\u201d or \u201cLord, I believe, help my unbelief\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them.&#8221; Psalm 118:19 The promise of the Gospel is for me. Faith does not make it so but merely recognizes that it is so, a recognition that happens because we dare not call Christ a liar when he tells us, on that one momentous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What faith says&#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\/4283"}],"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=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}