{"id":26359,"date":"2012-01-17T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=26359"},"modified":"2012-01-17T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:07:36","slug":"thanks-lord-the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-not-bad-for-using-12-disciples-from-2000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/01\/17\/thanks-lord-the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-not-bad-for-using-12-disciples-from-2000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks LORD! The proof is in the pudding &#8212; not bad for using 12 disciples from 2000 years ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts%205:33-39&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\"> Acts 5:33-39<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><sup id=\"en-NIV-27093\">33<\/sup> When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27094\">34<\/sup> But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27095\">35<\/sup> Then he addressed the Sanhedrin: \u201cMen of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27096\">36<\/sup> Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27097\">37<\/sup> After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27098\">38<\/sup> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go!<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. <sup id=\"en-NIV-27099\">39<\/sup> But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com\/TheBignumbers_4e56350c22e76.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26361\" title=\"Christianity-30PercentWorldsPop-Jan2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Christianity-30PercentWorldsPop-Jan2012.jpg\" alt=\"Christianity now numbers 30% of the world's population -- as of Jan 2012\" width=\"898\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Christianity-30PercentWorldsPop-Jan2012.jpg 898w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Christianity-30PercentWorldsPop-Jan2012-150x80.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The above image was taken\/edited from the infographic below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com\/TheBignumbers_4e56350c22e76.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"visually_embed_infographic aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com\/TheBignumbers_4e56350c22e76_w587.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Acts 5:33-39 33 When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death. 34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while. 35 Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,425,234],"tags":[606,772,96,689],"class_list":["post-26359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faith","category-history","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-faith-wisdom","tag-global","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26363,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26359\/revisions\/26363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}