{"id":5920,"date":"2018-12-28T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:58:21","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-28-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5920","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe belief that salvation lies solely in our hands is not only wrong but heretical . The ability to obtain salvation through good works only, attributed to Pelagius, was condemned as heretical by the Council of Cathage\u2026Such a belief implies that God is no more than a bookkeeper tallying up our good and bad deeds. Such a belief has no place for Grace or repentance. Such a belief has no place for the church or the Eucharist\u2026 Such a belief ultimately means that we are capable of saving ourselves and making God irrelevant for salvation \u2013 and that cannot be right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Fr Themi Adamopoulo of paradise4kids)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5921\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/34635399221_f192acbae5_b-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/34635399221_f192acbae5_b-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/34635399221_f192acbae5_b-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/34635399221_f192acbae5_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe belief that salvation lies solely in our hands is not only wrong but heretical . The ability to obtain salvation through good works only, attributed to Pelagius, was condemned [&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-5920","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\/5920","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=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}