{"id":4712,"date":"2018-04-19T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2018-04-18T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:14:26","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-spiritual-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Spiritual Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5stt2\" data-offset-key=\"4fr1o-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4fr1o-0-0\">&#8220;It is not possible to put the Gospel and secular logic together. In the Gospel there is love, while in secular logic there is self-interest. The Gospel says, And if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two.14 What is logical about this saying? This is surely madness! This is why those who try to reconcile the Gospel with secular logic find themselves in utter confusion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5stt2\" data-offset-key=\"cp7t3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cp7t3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cp7t3-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cp7t3-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4713\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8d1b94e771fcbe2b4fb75cdee23aa066-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8d1b94e771fcbe2b4fb75cdee23aa066-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8d1b94e771fcbe2b4fb75cdee23aa066.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not possible to put the Gospel and secular logic together. In the Gospel there is love, while in secular logic there is self-interest. The Gospel says, And if [&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-4712","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\/4712","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=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}