{"id":12871,"date":"2023-08-01T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:22:29","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12871","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dm1j7\" data-offset-key=\"7hrjm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7hrjm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7hrjm-0-0\">&#8220;Our belief is that man is created to be in communion and union with God, and that if he rejects this communion, he will not become a human being in the authentic understanding. Apart from God a \u201cnormal man\u201d cannot exist. The state of the man who has cut himself off from God is abnormal.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dm1j7\" data-offset-key=\"e2dhr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e2dhr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e2dhr-0-0\">(Metropolitan Saba of the Antiochian Archdiocese in America)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e2dhr-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12872\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ioanna-xera-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"139\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our belief is that man is created to be in communion and union with God, and that if he rejects this communion, he will not become a human being in [&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-12871","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\/12871","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=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}