{"id":2541,"date":"2017-09-05T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T01:12:51","slug":"christianity-has-nothing-to-say-to-people-who-dont-understand-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/christianity-has-nothing-to-say-to-people-who-dont-understand-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Has Nothing to Say to People Who Don&#8217;t Understand Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/TheVoiceBlog\/Christianity_Nothing_to_Say_to_Unrepentant_CS-Lewis_01_900x575.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christianity_Nothing_to_Say_to_Unrepentant_CS-Lewis_01_900x575.jpg\" alt=\"Christianity Has Nothing to Say to People Who Dont Understand Sin\" width=\"790\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christianity_Nothing_to_Say_to_Unrepentant_CS-Lewis_01_900x575.jpg 900w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christianity_Nothing_to_Say_to_Unrepentant_CS-Lewis_01_900x575-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christianity_Nothing_to_Say_to_Unrepentant_CS-Lewis_01_900x575-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness. <\/p>\n<p>It is after you have realised that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power \u2013 it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.&#8221; ~ C.S. Lewis (<em>Mere Christianity<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need any forgiveness. It is after you have realised that there is a real Moral &#8230; <a title=\"Christianity Has Nothing to Say to People Who Don&#8217;t Understand Sin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/christianity-has-nothing-to-say-to-people-who-dont-understand-sin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christianity Has Nothing to Say to People Who Don&#8217;t Understand Sin\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,10,29,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-christianity","category-moral-issues","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}