{"id":12109,"date":"2022-12-27T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12109"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:20:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-27-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12109","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy establishing the Feast of the Lord\u2019s Birth on December 25, the Church did two things; first, she clearly rejected pagan ideas about life, death, birth, etc., and showed that Christ had come to replace those lifeless and g1oomy teachings (i.e. Reincarnation);\u00a0 secondly, the Church confessed her undying faith in a great dogma: that God had taken flesh from a woman and come to dwell among and save men.\u201d<br \/>\n(From \u2018The Orthodox Word\u2019, December, 1980)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12110\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ccard-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ccard-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ccard-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ccard-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ccard.jpg 1589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy establishing the Feast of the Lord\u2019s Birth on December 25, the Church did two things; first, she clearly rejected pagan ideas about life, death, birth, etc., and showed that [&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-12109","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\/12109","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=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}