{"id":5394,"date":"2018-09-02T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2018-09-01T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T01:44:39","slug":"the-truth-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"The Truth of Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor me, absolute truth, absolute history is Holy Scripture. Once came \u00a0to Metropolitan Philaret a glamorous society lady who said (she also referred to natural sciences): \u2018How can you believe that Jonas was swallowed by a whale? We know that a whale eats plankton, and that it\u2019s impossible for one to swallow a man!\u2019 But Metropolitan Philaret answered, \u2018Even if it were written in the Bible that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov in \u00a0\u00a0pravoslavie.ru)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5395\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/stavronikita_guestroom_view-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/stavronikita_guestroom_view-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/stavronikita_guestroom_view.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor me, absolute truth, absolute history is Holy Scripture. Once came \u00a0to Metropolitan Philaret a glamorous society lady who said (she also referred to natural sciences): \u2018How can you believe [&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-5394","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\/5394","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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}