{"id":3017,"date":"2013-02-26T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2013-02-26T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:21:01","slug":"mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3017\/mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As I&#8217;m typing one of the IK books, namely <em>Mary through the Centuries<\/em>, I am amazed at how highly exalted she is. I am so thankful that God has not let me be impressed with Christianity. After reading chapter 2 of the Father and Son book this weekend, and reading in Matthew this morning, I see how common sense, down to earth, and non-religious Jesus is. He is more approachable than they&#8217;ve made Mary to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Anna D<\/span><br \/>\n===============<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Anna,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">There are those who think that the next great theological step for Catholicism will be to declare Mary somehow to be the third person of the Trinity, so that there will be a holy family in heaven. If so, it will be a kind of an effeminization of God, like the effeminization of men that is taking place in this culture now.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n===============<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gross.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Anna<\/span><br \/>\n=============<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Amen to that.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, As I&#8217;m typing one of the IK books, namely Mary through the Centuries, I am amazed at how highly exalted she is. I am so thankful that God has not let me be impressed with Christianity. After reading chapter 2 of the Father and Son book this weekend, and reading in Matthew this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"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=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}