{"id":10704,"date":"2021-12-28T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2021-12-16T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T01:34:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-28-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10704","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow can we return to the blissful state that Adam and Eve enjoyed before they fell? God has shown a way through Redemption, by giving us commandments, a way of life, and most of all His Son, Jesus Christ, Who has become our Guide and Savior (John 14:6). If we follow these commandments and Christ\u2019s way, then not only will we be eternally saved in the dreadful Judgement Day, but even here and now, it is possible for us to unite with God and dwell in a state of spiritual bliss (John 14:25). But we will never know this joyful state unless we earnestly and sincerely strive to fulfill all of God\u2019s commandments.\u201d<br \/>\n(Vladimiar Ivlenko in Orthodox Word Vol 1 Issue 8)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10705\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landscape-with-a-lake-1493481278Ed8-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landscape-with-a-lake-1493481278Ed8-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landscape-with-a-lake-1493481278Ed8-768x370.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landscape-with-a-lake-1493481278Ed8-1024x493.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/landscape-with-a-lake-1493481278Ed8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow can we return to the blissful state that Adam and Eve enjoyed before they fell? God has shown a way through Redemption, by giving us commandments, a way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}