{"id":2508,"date":"2016-10-20T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2016-10-05T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:14:00","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"q42m\" data-offset-key=\"b8cme-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b8cme-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b8cme-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;You wonder why does the world referred to imams and rabbis as priests&#8230;Don&#8217;t be surprised. This is theadopting of non-Christians to the Christian way of thinking and expressing. This sort of adapting was also felt in the first centuries while Christianity was still small in numbers and persecuted\u2026 Even those peoples who hate Christianity and are waging war against it are adapting to it. It is like when man fights a flood and gets all wet. Is this to be marveled at? No. Just pray to God for them.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"q42m\" data-offset-key=\"1fn3l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1fn3l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1fn3l-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St. Nikolai Velimirovich, &#8216;Missionary Letters #3&#8243;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1fn3l-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1862\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StNikolaiicon-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"StNikolaiicon\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StNikolaiicon-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StNikolaiicon.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You wonder why does the world referred to imams and rabbis as priests&#8230;Don&#8217;t be surprised. This is theadopting of non-Christians to the Christian way of thinking and expressing. This sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}