{"id":7251,"date":"2016-04-24T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2016-04-24T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:13:46","slug":"were-they-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7251\/were-they-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"Were They Romans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Were the believers Romans who eventually (over time) gave themselves to the Roman Empire, or were they just normal, common back-slidden God&#8217;s people who wanted to get involved in Rome&#8217;s politics and eventually partake of it&#8217;s riches?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> What you have written just has the same feelings as when Israel wanted a king in I Samuel and when the took on foreign wives at Baal-Peor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Billy M<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Billy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>All people in the Empire, after about 200 or so &#8211; I forgot the year &#8211; were officially considered Roman citizens.\u00a0 Before that, just some of God&#8217;s people, like the apostle Paul held the distinction of Roman citizenship.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were the believers Romans who eventually (over time) gave themselves to the Roman Empire, or were they just normal, common back-slidden God&#8217;s people who wanted to get involved in Rome&#8217;s politics and eventually partake of it&#8217;s riches? What you have written just has the same feelings as when Israel wanted a king in I Samuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251"}],"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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}