{"id":3140,"date":"2024-06-12T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2024-06-12T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:50:39","slug":"religious-leaders-who-hate-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Religious leaders who hate the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg 415w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Religious leaders] who abuse others in order to gain power; who rob and deceive the innocent; who place the demands of goodness and justice beneath their own self-preservation; who close themselves against the very light they claim to radiate. The darkness here is willful, self-conscious, and self-chosen: the most destructive form of all, leading to alliance with the forces of darkness. Such deliberate rebellion and unbelief are the true manifestation of sin in the Fourth Gospel.\u201d <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Aaron Hann @aaronjhamm on X (X.com) May 30, 2024\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/1796297806170263860\">Pt.2<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aaronjhann\/status\/1796297807738925505\">Pt.3\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3138\">Pt. 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"en-ESV-26129\" class=\"text John-3-19 psuedo-selection\"><span class=\"woj\">&#8220;&#8230;the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-26130\" class=\"text John-3-20\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"en-ESV-26131\" class=\"text John-3-21\"><span class=\"woj\"><sup class=\"versenum\">\u00a0<\/sup>But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.\u201d\u00a0 John 3: 19-21<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: harm &amp; abuse: Man born blind (John 9), Jesus (John 18-19) neglecting justice: Matt. 23:23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;[Religious leaders] who&#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":{"0":"post-3140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}