{"id":13562,"date":"2024-02-13T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2024-02-10T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:26:19","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-13-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13562","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026whenever we want to do our own will in contradiction to the will of our Creator, each of us must remember that God doesn\u2019t simply confront us with a fiat, \u2018No, you\u2019re not going to do it and I\u2019m not going to allow it.\u2019 Rather, He confronts us with the fact that we are made, each of us, in His image and likeness. And we are confronted before every act of disobedience with the question, \u2018Who is like God? What does it mean to be like God?\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n(Archbishop Melchisedek in \u2018Life Transfigured\u2019 journal,\u00a0 2022)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eeeew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13563\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eeeew-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eeeew-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eeeew.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026whenever we want to do our own will in contradiction to the will of our Creator, each of us must remember that God doesn\u2019t simply confront us with a fiat, [&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-13562","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\/13562","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=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}