{"id":2972,"date":"2009-12-25T07:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2009-12-25T07:11:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T15:11:46","slug":"two-ideas-for-christians-to-consider-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/doctrine\/two-ideas-for-christians-to-consider-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ideas for Christians to Consider for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are a regular reader of this page,\u00a0you know that the real reason that December 25th was chosen as \u201c<a href=\"\/christmas.htm\">Christmas<\/a>\u201d to supposedly honor Jesus was because that date is the birthday of the sun-god Mithras (here is a related article <a href=\"\/christianity-mithraism.htm\">Do You Practice Mithraism?<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So, since you probably do not celebrate it, and in most nations most of the stores are closed, other than cleaning up around the house, what can you do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 220px;\" title=\"Game Seat\" src=\"\/quizzes\/whowantstobeabiblicalmillionairegame\/millionaire\/hotseat.gif\" alt=\"Game Seat\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For amusement, you might want to play the <a href=\"\/quizzes\/whowantstobeabiblicalmillionairegame\/millionaire_game.html\">Who Wants to be a    Biblical Millionaire?<\/a> game.\u00a0 It is fairly popular and my son Michael is adding questions to it all the time.\u00a0 Actually, if you have not played it in a while, you may be pleased to find that there are about twice as many questions as there were last year.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a fun way to test your knowledge and hopefully grow in knowledge (cf. 2 Peter 3:18).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/earlychristianity.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/hoec.gif\" alt=\"History of Early Christianity\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another option would be to study more about the <a href=\"\/earlychristianity.htm\">The History of Early Christianity<\/a>.\u00a0 There is always more to learn and I am frequently updating articles there.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you should \u201cpray always\u201d as Paul taught, and it is usually a good idea for Christians to <a href=\"\/bible.htm\">Read the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for those of you not working today, have a great day off!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter If you are a regular reader of this page,\u00a0you know that the real reason that December 25th was chosen as \u201cChristmas\u201d to supposedly honor Jesus was because that date is the birthday of the sun-god Mithras (here is a related article Do You Practice Mithraism?). So, since you probably do not celebrate it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news","category-doctrine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}