{"id":712,"date":"2020-11-22T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=712"},"modified":"2020-11-22T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T03:29:10","slug":"paul-and-gentiles-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/11\/22\/paul-and-gentiles-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul and Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 1:7 says, &#8220;<span id=\"en-NIV-27938\" class=\"text Rom-1-7\">To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Rom-1-7\">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a greeting that is used to address groups of people quite a few times in the Bible, and it doesn&#8217;t end there.\u00a0 Today, something similar to this greeting is used also during Catholic mass to address the congregation.\u00a0 I never realized how many connections that are made with Paul.\u00a0 Another thing I found interesting relating to Paul is in Galatians 3:28.\u00a0 It says, &#8220;<span id=\"en-NIV-29131\" class=\"text Gal-3-28\">There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a scripture verse that I find to be relevant today.\u00a0 It discourages the recognition of peoples differences, racially and ethically, and encourages the recognition that we are all united through Jesus.\u00a0 It shouldn&#8217;t matter what gender you are, what race you are, or where you are on the economic scale because we are all one with Jesus.\u00a0 With all the tensions between people today, I think this verse is very prevalent and is also very encouraging of creating a more inclusive world today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 1:7 says, &#8220;To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:\u00a0Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a greeting that is used to address groups of people quite a few times in the Bible, and it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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\/9196870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}