{"id":10503,"date":"2011-07-27T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/christian-stoicism\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:11:29","slug":"christian-stoicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/christian-stoicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Stoicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Wurmbrand<\/a>, From Torture to Triumph<\/em> (Monarch, 1991), p. 5:<\/span><\/p>\n

     A brother who had been terribly tortured by the Communist police<\/span>
     shared the same prison cell with me and told the following incident:<\/span><\/p>\n

     I once saw an impressive scene in a circus. A sharpshooter set out<\/span>
     to demonstrate his skill. In the arena was his wife with a burning<\/span>
     candle on her head. From a distance he shot the candle so that it<\/span>
     fell, leaving his wife unharmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

     Later I asked her, "Were you afraid?" She replied, "Why should I<\/span>
     be? He aimed at the candle, not at me."<\/span><\/p>\n

     I thought about this when I was under torture. Why should I be<\/span>
     afraid of the torturers? They don't beat me. They beat my body. My<\/span>
     'me,' my real being, is Christ. I was seated with him in the<\/span>
     heavenly places. This — my real person — could not be touched by<\/span>
     them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Wurmbrand, From Torture to Triumph (Monarch, 1991), p. 5:      A brother who had been terribly tortured by the Communist police     shared the same prison cell with me and told the following incident:      I once saw an impressive scene in a circus. A sharpshooter set out     to demonstrate his skill. In the arena … Continue reading “Christian Stoicism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-stoicism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}