{"id":648,"date":"2020-11-11T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=648"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:55:00","slug":"letters-of-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/11\/11\/letters-of-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters of Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Discussing the letters of Paul led to many new discoveries for me. Firstly, I never realized that Saul and Paul were actually the same person. Paul has a very important role in Christianity by spreading the word and teachings of Jesus. What was really interesting to me, however, was reading about the relationship between Paul\u2019s letters and race relations. Apparently in the arguments over slavery in the 1800s, those who were for slavery used the letters of Paul to emphasize the submitting of slaves to their masters. However, most people seem to look at Galatians 3:28\u2014\u201cThere is neither Jew nor Greek, male and female, slave or free, but we are all one\u2014you are all one in Christ Jesus.\u201d I think that is one of the best things in the Bible, and something I think all Christians need to remember. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing the letters of Paul led to many new discoveries for me. Firstly, I never realized that Saul and Paul were actually the same person. Paul has a very important role in Christianity by spreading the word and teachings of Jesus. What was really interesting to me, however, was reading about the relationship between Paul\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}