{"id":710,"date":"2015-01-13T13:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=710"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:45:49","slug":"should-we-always-seek-to-relieve-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/should-we-always-seek-to-relieve-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we always seek to relieve pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for January 16, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first Biblical mention of pain is in the description of the curse of sin (Genesis 3).\u00a0 How do you explain the association between pain and sin?\u00a0 What relief is there for mankind?\u00a0 What relief is there specifically for children of God?\u00a0 Is pain ever good?\u00a0 What practical advice can you give a believer or non-believer about pain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for January 16, 2015. The first Biblical mention of pain is in the description of the curse of sin (Genesis 3).\u00a0 How do you explain the association between pain and sin?\u00a0 What relief is there for mankind?\u00a0 What relief is there specifically for children of God?\u00a0 Is pain ever good?\u00a0 What practical advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}