{"id":1908,"date":"2023-11-27T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2023-11-27T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:28:12","slug":"the-role-of-self-deceit-in-the-development-of-an-abuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"The role of self-deceit in the development of a wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025.jpg 434w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/mapleleavescrop505025-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"en-ESV-26481\" class=\"text John-10-11\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup><\/span><\/span>&#8220;The longer you deceive yourself [by telling yourself why a wrong behavior is actually justified just this once], the easier it is to deceive yourself.&#8221; &#8220;And you can&#8217;t keep doing that without getting better at it. Anything we practice, we get better at. And so it becomes more automatic.&#8221; &#8211;Diane Langberg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/theology\/church-abuse-protecting-ministries-destroying-souls\/\">Church Abuse: Protecting Ministries, Destroying Souls<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0About 10:15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">November 27, 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;The longer you deceive yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}