{"id":142,"date":"2009-04-01T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-04-01T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T12:47:41","slug":"does-satan-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"does satan exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some perverse reason I watched (via the internet) some of the &#8220;Face-Off&#8221; debate from the US ABC network addressing the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Nightline\/FaceOff\/\">does Satan exist<\/a>?&#8221; I&#8217;m sure these things are staged just to annoy me, and it certainly did its job!<\/p>\n<p>Particularly annoying was Deepak Chopra. Pretty much whenever he said anything about the Bible or Jesus he simply got it completely wrong. I mean, what was that stuff about &#8220;me&#8221; in Aramaic being literally &#8220;the I within the I&#8221;? Which grammar did he get that from? Of course whenever anyone appeals to the Aramaic that stands behind the NT texts they&#8217;re skating on very thin ice. But appealing to Aramaic and then making a nonsensical point based on it, well that&#8217;s skating on thin ice with heated skates!<\/p>\n<p>Of course when you plug his name into my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=107\">Gematria Calculator<\/a> it turns out his number is 337. Since that&#8217;s for his two names, when you double it and subtract the number of letters in his name you&#8217;re left with 666. So what do you suppose that tells you? Certainly this calculation carries about as much weight as his claims about the Bible and Jesus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I should just stay away from such things, it&#8217;s not good for my nerves and it doth vex me greatly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some perverse reason I watched (via the internet) some of the &#8220;Face-Off&#8221; debate from the US ABC network addressing the question &#8220;does Satan exist?&#8221; I&#8217;m sure these things are staged just to annoy me, and it certainly did its job! Particularly annoying was Deepak Chopra. Pretty much whenever he said anything about the Bible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}