{"id":7094,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-only-empirically-verifiable-christian-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","slug":"the-only-empirically-verifiable-christian-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-only-empirically-verifiable-christian-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Empirically Verifiable Christian Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr called the doctrine of original sin the only empirically verifiable Christian doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>[Holwick: Yancey attributed the statement to famous agnostic George Bernard Shaw but I cannot find anyone else who does.  Others attribute it to G. K. Chesterton, who did write that Original Sin &#8220;is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved,&#8221; by which he meant that the fact of sin is &#8220;a fact as practical as potatoes.&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr called the doctrine of original sin the only empirically verifiable Christian doctrine. [Holwick: Yancey attributed the statement to famous agnostic George Bernard Shaw but I cannot find anyone else who does. Others attribute it to G. K. Chesterton, who did write that Original Sin &#8220;is the only part of Christian theology which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3113,1149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}