{"id":14116,"date":"2023-08-27T00:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:07:57","slug":"the-iron-kingdom-section-we-read-lee-ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14116\/the-iron-kingdom-section-we-read-lee-ann\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Kingdom Section We Read: Lee Ann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">After reading the section last night of the Iron Kingdom, chapter 3, I had these feelings about the ceremonies that are Christianity.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve never felt the power of God, if you\u2019ve never heard from God, then the ceremonies become like some kind of gimmick, a substitution for the real thing, a distraction from the reality that there is nothing there.\u00a0 &#8220;Instead of seeking the real thing, let\u2019s perform this ceremony that looks holy and makes you feel like you\u2019ve done something.&#8221;\u00a0 But it\u2019s all nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ceremonies provide a smoke screen to hide the nothing that is really there.\u00a0 As we were reading all of the quotes with the big words last night, I realized that even the words those scholars use to justify those ceremonies are confusing and are used to cover up the nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a lot of big words about nothing!\u00a0 They leave you scratching your head and wondering what you just read, and feeling like &#8220;Surely I\u2019m just not smart enough to understand what this brilliant scholar is writing.&#8221;\u00a0 But is all nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">But every time you interjected an explanation or any words of reason, it\u2019s such a relief from those blathering scholars who go on and on pontificating in such a lofty way about nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a reminder of how good and simple the Truth is!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This book is pulling back the curtain and exposing the nothingness of Christianity.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how you have managed to wade through those thousands of pages of yuck, but it feels like it has to be done.\u00a0 It\u2019s an opportunity to pass on the truth Jesus has shown you.\u00a0 But what a tremendous job it has been!\u00a0 Whew!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lee Ann<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the section last night of the Iron Kingdom, chapter 3, I had these feelings about the ceremonies that are Christianity.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve never felt the power of God, if you\u2019ve never heard from God, then the ceremonies become like some kind of gimmick, a substitution for the real thing, a distraction from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}