{"id":4959,"date":"2018-07-23T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:21:01","slug":"musing-through-matthew-parable-vs-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"Musing Through Matthew- Parable Vs Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:15 and \u00a0the theme of <strong><em>Jesus the king.<\/em> <\/strong>Today our study takes us into a <strong><em>parable versus principle<\/em><\/strong>. Peter thinks that all Christ has been teaching about the heavenly plants and the\u00a0blind has been a parable. Peter instead of grappling with this on his own goes right to the fountainhead of all truth and asked the Lord. It is not a parable that our Lord has taught but just simple principles of truth. Oh how often we\u00a0as God&#8217;s people don&#8217;t get the simple truths being taught by our Lord because we failed to ask the teacher of all truth to teach us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Matthew 15:15 and \u00a0the theme of Jesus the king. Today our study takes us into a parable versus principle. Peter thinks that all Christ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}