{"id":15984,"date":"2025-10-05T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:04:34","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-8-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15984","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026by saying a prayer in which one acknowledges the significance of Christ&#8217;s death on the cross and asking Him to forgive you and make you born again.\u00a0 Of course the person saying the prayer must really and truly believe what he is saying in the prayer, but if one does truly mean it, one is born again and forgiven. Neither baptism, the presence of a church community, or indeed any other individual Christian are required. This, I suggest, represents the intellectualization of conversion, and a fundamental distortion of the apostolic practice.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Lawrence Farley, \u2018No Other Foundation\u2019 blog on false theology of Protestantism)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15985\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2E434253-F29B-4CFA-A7AA-BA35163FC335_w1023_s-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2E434253-F29B-4CFA-A7AA-BA35163FC335_w1023_s-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2E434253-F29B-4CFA-A7AA-BA35163FC335_w1023_s-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2E434253-F29B-4CFA-A7AA-BA35163FC335_w1023_s-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2E434253-F29B-4CFA-A7AA-BA35163FC335_w1023_s.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026by saying a prayer in which one acknowledges the significance of Christ&#8217;s death on the cross and asking Him to forgive you and make you born again.\u00a0 Of course the [&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-15984","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\/15984","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=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}