{"id":6727,"date":"2011-03-18T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:26:00","slug":"christianity-distilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110318-6727.htm","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Distilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <i>The Factastic Book of 1001 Lists<\/i>, the first page of the section of world beliefs includes four lists: &#8220;The Five Pillar of Islam&#8221;, &#8220;Jewish Rules and Rituals&#8221;, &#8220;The Five K&#8217;s of Sikhism&#8221;, and &#8220;Noble Truths of Buddhism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My eyes quickly jumped over these headings, searching for the one that would seek to distill Christianity into a list four or five points long.<\/p>\n<p>I never found that list.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Factastic Book of 1001 Lists<\/i> didn&#8217;t have it&#8211;and as I considered why, I realized that the reason was simple.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity cannot be distilled into a list.<\/p>\n<p>Not a list of principles or a list of rituals or a list of rules.<\/p>\n<p>No, the author of this book would be quite wrong to distill Christianity into a list. After all, I learned in grammar that lists should contain more than one item.<\/p>\n<p>And Christianity is distilled, not into a list of items, but into One Word:<\/p>\n<p><b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Word through Whom the world was made.<\/p>\n<p>The Word for Whom the world was made.<\/p>\n<p>The Word Who gives light to every man.<\/p>\n<p>The Word Whose death offers life to every man.<\/p>\n<p>The Word at Whose name every knee bows and every tongue confesses.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In one Word, the meaning of all of life.<\/p>\n<p>We have no five pillars, but we have one foundation: <b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have no rules or rituals, but we have one ruler and priest: <b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have no five K&#8217;s, but we have one King: <b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have no four noble truths. We have only One: <b>Jesus<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.&#8221;<br \/>\n~John 14:6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Factastic Book of 1001 Lists, the first page of the section of world beliefs includes four lists: &#8220;The Five Pillar of Islam&#8221;, &#8220;Jewish Rules and Rituals&#8221;, &#8220;The Five K&#8217;s of Sikhism&#8221;, and &#8220;Noble Truths of Buddhism.&#8221; My eyes quickly jumped over these headings, searching for the one that would seek to distill Christianity &#8230; <a title=\"Christianity Distilled\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110318-6727.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christianity Distilled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}