{"id":3476,"date":"2013-10-14T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2013-10-14T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:21:45","slug":"satanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3476\/satanism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Satanism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Amy and I like the new sentence you added to the\u00a0<i>God Had a Son<\/i>\u00a0book:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The way of \u201cSatanism\u201d is no more the way of Satan than the way of \u201cChristianity\u201d is the way of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">We both think it fits wells where you put it \u2013 and it certainly is true! \u00a0Before God touched me in 2007, I was dabbling in various world religions, and \u201cSatanism\u201d was one of them. \u00a0It\u2019s basically just a \u201creligion\u201d of the flesh \u2013 they promote openly indulging in and giving into every fleshly lust and desire, rather than trying to cover it up and appear moral and upright, like many Christians do. \u00a0And it allows a person to dress as goofy and as weird as they want to, and perform \u201cSatanic\u201d rituals to puff you up and make you feel like you have some kind of power over people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I remember thinking how ironic it was, when Jesus opened my eyes to the truth \u2013 that I was playing around with religions like Satanism, Buddhism, etc., while others whom I knew were staunch Christians. \u00a0But the truth of the matter was that they were involved in the real religion of Satan, while I was just a pathetic sinner searching for something real \u2013 but God was about to start dealing with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Vince<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John: Amy and I like the new sentence you added to the\u00a0God Had a Son\u00a0book: The way of \u201cSatanism\u201d is no more the way of Satan than the way of \u201cChristianity\u201d is the way of Christ. We both think it fits wells where you put it \u2013 and it certainly is true! \u00a0Before God [&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-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}