{"id":4438,"date":"2018-02-25T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2018-02-12T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:50:26","slug":"elder-joseph-of-vatopaidi-on-our-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4438","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ on Our Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"44hn2\" data-offset-key=\"a6tv2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a6tv2-0-0\">\u201cThe emptying of Word God conveyed deification onto human nature. Therefore, if man begins to obey God\u2019s will from this life, he as a person will be transferred to be united with the Lord trough Grace. Just as the adopted child participates in his father\u2019s property, his name and personality, similarly even though we have in some sense not been born of the Lord, we have acquired the same status as a natural child, because the Lord adopted us\u2026This is what Word God brought on earth.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"44hn2\" data-offset-key=\"cue5a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cue5a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cue5a-0-0\"> &#8211; \u2018Purification of the Heart\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cue5a-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4439\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/josephofvatopedi-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/josephofvatopedi-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/josephofvatopedi.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"44hn2\" data-offset-key=\"3elqf-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe emptying of Word God conveyed deification onto human nature. Therefore, if man begins to obey God\u2019s will from this life, he as a person will be transferred to be [&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-4438","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\/4438","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=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}