{"id":50,"date":"2009-01-29T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/2009\/01\/29\/how-do-i-know-i-am-a-christian\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:58:15","slug":"how-do-i-know-i-am-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/2009\/01\/29\/how-do-i-know-i-am-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Know I Am a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Montgomery Boice in his commentary on <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold\">The Epistles of John<\/span>, indicates three tests to know if we are Christians.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Moral Test (1 John 2:3-6)<br \/>\nA test of righteousness, but not sinlessness.\n<\/li>\n<li>The Social Test (1 John 2:7-11)<br \/>\nDo I follow Christ? For example, do I love others?  The extent of our love, the length of our love, and the degree to which it is realized.\n<\/li>\n<li>The Doctrinal Test (1 John 2:18-27)<br \/>\nWho do I believe Christ is?  A Christian believes in the deity of Jesus Christ!\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Montgomery Boice in his commentary on The Epistles of John, indicates three tests to know if we are Christians. The Moral Test (1 John 2:3-6) A test of righteousness, but not sinlessness. The Social Test (1 John 2:7-11) Do I follow Christ? For example, do I love others? The extent of our love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assurance","tag-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jimonline.org\/theosguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}