{"id":14686,"date":"2024-04-27T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=14686"},"modified":"2024-05-06T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:05:26","slug":"christians-first-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14686\/christians-first-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian&#8217;s First Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>If someone were to ask me what a Christian&#8217;s first allegiance lies, I would say that a Christian&#8217;s first allegiance is to the government.\u00a0 And in spite of all that they say, they have proved that is true by fighting for the governments they are under.\u00a0 In both world wars, Christians on both sides used Jesus&#8217; name as they prayed, and the proceeded to kill each other for their respective governments, which the real Jesus forbids his people to do.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is so true!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Based on my experiences with some Christians, it is right up there with the &#8220;get saved&#8221; doctrine.\u00a0 When you stop and put it in perspective, things really haven\u2019t changed from the time of the Crusades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>In reality, things have not changed since AD 325, when Christianity began.\u00a0 Christianity began as a religio\/political institution under the wing of the Roman Emperor Constantine, and it has never been anything else.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone were to ask me what a Christian&#8217;s first allegiance lies, I would say that a Christian&#8217;s first allegiance is to the government.\u00a0 And in spite of all that they say, they have proved that is true by fighting for the governments they are under.\u00a0 In both world wars, Christians on both sides used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686"}],"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=14686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14706,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions\/14706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}