{"id":2945,"date":"2020-06-02T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2020-06-02T01:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:37:25","slug":"heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Heresy is from the Greek word hairesis which denotes (a) &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong>a choosing, choice&#8221;<\/strong><em><strong> (from haireomai, &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong>to choose<\/strong><em><strong>&#8220;); then, &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong>that which is chosen<\/strong><em><strong>,&#8221; and hence, &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong>an opinion,<\/strong><em><strong>&#8221; especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects, Galatians 5:20 (marg., &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><strong>parties<\/strong><em><strong>&#8220;); such erroneous opinions are frequently the outcome of personal preference or the prospect of advantage; see II Peter 2:1.<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>*<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0*<em>W.E. Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>Copyright 1984, 1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heresy is from the Greek word hairesis which denotes (a) &#8220;a choosing, choice&#8221; (from haireomai, &#8220;to choose&#8220;); then, &#8220;that which is chosen,&#8221; and hence, &#8220;an opinion,&#8221; especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects, Galatians 5:20 (marg., &#8220;parties&#8220;); such erroneous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heresy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}