{"id":7697,"date":"2009-04-12T07:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T12:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2009-04-12T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T05:01:00","slug":"breathing-the-breath-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/breathing-the-breath-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing the Breath of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feastupontheword.org\/Gen_2:6-10\">Genesis (2:7)<\/a> says that God breathed life into Adam&#8217;s nostrils. Is our life a portion of God&#8217;s? Jesus quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/feastupontheword.org\/Ps_82:6-8\">a Psalm (82:6)<\/a> that said, &#8220;Ye are gods,&#8221; when confronted about his claims to divinity. Mormons are usually not so bold, but there is certainly an element in our tradition that states that humans are children of God, like godlings, capable of developing into gods. Is this idea arrogant or humbling? It depends.<!--more--> Is God arbitrary? then it would seem to justify irresponsibility. Is God loving and holy? then it would seem rather to remove all of our excuses for ungodliness. Does it encourage us to shrug off God&#8217;s commandments, or does it lay upon us infinite responsibilities? Does it teach us to be self-centered, or does it require us to treat one another as divine, holy beings, whom to mistreat or offend is blasphemous? Christ said, &#8220;inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/feastupontheword.org\/Matt_25:34-40\">(Matthew 25:40)<\/a>. Does it make us proud of our achievements and successes, or show how dreadfully we have fallen from our proper character?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis (2:7) says that God breathed life into Adam&#8217;s nostrils. Is our life a portion of God&#8217;s? Jesus quoted a Psalm (82:6) that said, &#8220;Ye are gods,&#8221; when confronted about his claims to divinity. Mormons are usually not so bold, but there is certainly an element in our tradition that states that humans are children of God, like godlings, capable of developing into gods. Is this idea arrogant or humbling? It depends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-general-doctrine","category-scriptures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}