{"id":219,"date":"2020-12-22T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/?p=219"},"modified":"2020-12-22T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:18:20","slug":"acknowledging-gods-lordship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/2020\/12\/22\/acknowledging-gods-lordship\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging God\u2019s  Lordship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledging God\u2019s absolute Lordship makes all the difference between clarity<br>and confusion with regard to God\u2019s absolute oneness. People often combined their<br>acknowledgement of God as the sole creator with belief in multiple deities having<br>authority in their life. It may seem absurd that people should ever hold such a belief,<br>but this was true in the past and is still true today. The Qur\u2019\u0101n speaks of those who<br>claim that they \u201conly worship them [minor gods] so that they may bring us nearer to God.\u201c<br>(39: 3) It also mentions that some Jewish and Christian groups who \u201chave taken their<br>rabbis and priests as gods alongside God.\u201d (9: 31) Polytheism, or the worship of several<br>deities or demigods besides the perceived \u2018Grand Deity\u2019, was widespread when<br>Islam emerged in the 7th century in Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acknowledging God\u2019s absolute Lordship makes all the difference between clarityand confusion with regard to God\u2019s absolute oneness. People often combined theiracknowledgement of God as the sole creator with belief in multiple deities havingauthority in their life. It may seem absurd that people should ever hold such a belief,but this was true in the past and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/diaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}