{"id":979,"date":"2006-12-25T00:16:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T00:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T02:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T02:03:47","slug":"december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy and the Profane"},"content":{"rendered":"

As long as man lives in this world and in his present condition, there will be the struggle between the holy and the profane.\u00a0 We can no more rid ourselves of it than we can of heaven and hell, of God and men, or of sin and salvation.\u00a0 No sooner had God given the Law at Sinai than we see Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10) offering strange fire in the holy place.\u00a0 This was no trifling act with God for He struck them dead immediately and then instructed Moses and Aaron to teach the people to put difference between the holy and unholy, between unclean and clean (Lev 10:10).<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of Israel (and of the Church also) is a history of understanding the holy and the profane.\u00a0 Uzzah was killed for putting unclean hands on God\u2019s ark; fifty thousand people died in Beth-shemesh for treating the ark in an unworthy manner; Ananias and Sapphira died before the church for lying to the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 When the Israelites went into captivity, Ezekiel wrote, Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them (Ez. 22:26).<\/p>\n

The good news is that God will remedy the antipathy in the end.\u00a0 Even Ezekiel describes the kingdom of God on the earth when Christ will reign in righteousness, And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean (Ez. 44:23).\u00a0 God\u2019s goodness is superior to (and prior to) Satan\u2019s evil and will reign victorious after all sin and evil has been judged and put away forever.<\/p>\n

In our present time, we must deal with the conflict between good and evil by following God\u2019s instructions carefully.\u00a0 That is why parents teach manners to their children, or why governments make laws, or why wars are fought.\u00a0 There must be constant vigilance on all levels in this battle between the holy and the profane.\u00a0 God has often revealed specifics for His people to follow:\u00a0 the Temple was His house and it was not to be made a den of thieves; the Church is God\u2019s body and it should not be given offense; and our bodies are the Temple of the living God, and they are to be holy and acceptable to Him.<\/p>\n

When the unholy is brought into the holy<\/h3>\n

God protects those areas where He places His glory and holiness and so should we.\u00a0 We have a number of words and expressions that the Bible uses to describe this transgression.<\/p>\n

Profane.<\/strong>\u00a0 But refuse profane and old wives\u2019 fables (1 Tim 4:7); But shun profane and vain babblings (2 Tim 2:16); Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright (Heb 12:16).\u00a0 In English our word \u201cprofane\u201d means \u201cbefore the temple\u201d or to bring something into the holy place that doesn\u2019t belong.\u00a0 That is translated from the Greek word beblelos, which means \u201cto cross the threshold.\u201d\u00a0 To profane something is to bring something unholy across the threshold into the holy place.<\/p>\n

To use profanity is to let words come out of our mouths that shouldn\u2019t be crossing our lips.\u00a0 James rebukes those who praise God with their tongue but turn around and curse men who are made in God\u2019s image (Jas 3:9-10).\u00a0 The name of God is never to be used in \u201cvain\u201d or in such a profane way.\u00a0 We will be held accountable for every idle word that proceeds out of our mouths.<\/p>\n

Obscene.<\/strong>\u00a0 Though not used in our English Bible, the English word means \u201coff the scene\u201d or \u201coff-stage.\u201d\u00a0 This is something that would not be worthy to be spoken in front of others and would be banned in any public speaking.\u00a0 Gene Veith, Jr., in discussing the pathetic state of contemporary television and films, explains, \u201cIn ancient Greek drama, certain actions could not be performed onstage for fear of violating the decorum, the appropriate aesthetic effect, of the play.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Today it seems nothing is obscene, for anything at all may be said in any public place.\u00a0 Even among Christians there seems to be little or no difference from the world.\u00a0 As a pastor I am often shocked at the words Christians will use in my presence or in the church without so much as a blush.<\/p>\n

Vulgar.\u00a0<\/strong> This word has to do with the language of the common man.\u00a0 It means \u201cof the mob\u201d or \u201cof the common people.\u201d\u00a0 The Latin Bible is called the \u201cVulgate\u201d because it was first made in the common language.\u00a0 Our Greek New Testament is \u201cKoine\u201d or \u201ccommon\u201d Greek.\u00a0 In language it is the opposite of manners or politeness.\u00a0 It even seems snobbish by today\u2019s standards to speak of language that, though it is used in the street or locker rooms, has no place in public.<\/p>\n

The current rating system for television (G, PG, etc) supposedly keeps younger people from watching something vulgar, but unwittingly only allows older people to do so with impunity!\u00a0 How sad that Christians have followed the world\u2019s standard of decency by following these instructions.\u00a0 The truth is, if something is vulgar for one human being, it is vulgar for every human being.<\/p>\n

Pornography.<\/strong>\u00a0 This word is made up of two Greek words, porn? from porneia meaning \u201cfornication,\u201d and graph? meaning \u201cto write.\u201d\u00a0 In most dictionaries the English word will be broken down as \u201cthe writing of harlots.\u201d\u00a0 It is the writing out, or making public, what is private.\u00a0 It is not that nakedness is itself evil, but rather that it is private!\u00a0 Marriage and its behavior is between a husband and his wife.<\/p>\n

Blasphemy.<\/strong>\u00a0 Blasphemy is the overt denigration of God and His name.\u00a0 This word is a combination of \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cspeaking.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cBlast\u201d used to be a vulgar word by itself, but when such things are directed toward the holy God of heaven, it is truly \u201cblas-phemous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus was often accused of blasphemy by the Scribes and Pharisees because He said things that, if said by a mere human, would denigrate God\u2019s name.\u00a0 If you or I proposed to be equal with God, it would be blasphemous; if you or I claimed to be able to forgive sins, it would be blasphemous; but if Jesus was God and therefore could forgive sin, it was revelation!\u00a0 Those who claim to speak in God\u2019s name but say they are divine, or equal to Jesus Christ, or can become a god through some process, are guilty of this blasphemy before Him whose name is above all names!<\/p>\n

When the holy is brought into the unholy.<\/h3>\n

It is hard for us to see the outside of the bowl when we live on the inside, but the larger picture of the holy and the profane is that the universe is filled with God\u2019s holiness and has penetrated our little unholy world from time to time.\u00a0 Oh, it is true that all of God\u2019s creation declares His glory, but the truly miraculous has been a rare event in this world.\u00a0 When it has happened it brings light and life to all it touches.\u00a0 We also have words to describe this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Incarnation.<\/strong>\u00a0 Something that\u00a0 eats the flesh is \u201ccarnivorous,\u201d or that is fleshly is \u201ccarnal,\u201d or that is entertaining is a \u201ccarnival.\u201d Yet something that takes on flesh, or becomes flesh, is an \u201cincarnation\u201d embodied, personified as a human being.\u00a0 The only time this has happened was when God became a man.\u00a0 Humans can\u2019t be said to have experienced incarnation because we were nothing before we existed in our flesh.\u00a0 But, The Word was made flesh, and dwelt\u00a0 (\u201ctabernacled\u201d) among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (Jn 1:14).<\/p>\n

Revelation.<\/strong>\u00a0 The manifestation, appearance or enlightenment of God to man is a \u201crevelation.\u201d\u00a0 The biblical word is \u201capocalypse\u201d or apo-kalupt?, to \u201cun-cover.\u201d\u00a0 The Book of Revelation was an uncovering of information that had been withheld from us.\u00a0 So the coming of Christ into our world was a revealing of things we did not know.\u00a0 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared (\u201cexegeted\u201d) him (Jn 1:18).\u00a0 In these last days [God] hath spoken unto us by his Son (Heb 1:2).<\/p>\n

Transfiguration.<\/strong>\u00a0 There were times in Jesus\u2019 life that His deity burst through into the darkness.\u00a0 No time was so stunningly obvious than on the mount of transfiguration.\u00a0 There Jesus was transfigured, meta-morph?th?, a \u201cmetamorphosis.\u201d It is true that the deity of Christ shown through from the inside to the outside, but this was also a glimpse of the outside world bursting through to the inside.\u00a0 Moses and Elijah were there, talking with Jesus about His own departure back to the outside world.\u00a0 How could there not also be a radiant light, as on the Damascus road, when such a thing occurs?<\/p>\n

Emmanuel.<\/strong>\u00a0 In the Old Testament the name is spelled with an \u201cI\u201d in Isaiah 7:14 and 8:8; a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel . . . . The stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.\u00a0 Once in the New Testament the name is used, quoting Isaiah, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us (Mt 1:24).<\/p>\n

Never was there a moment like that moment!\u00a0 God with us!\u00a0 The Holy One coming into the world of the unholy and profane, the obscene and blasphemous.\u00a0 Christ by highest heaven adored; Christ the everlasting Lord! Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin\u2019s womb: Veiled in flesh the God-head see; Hail the incarnate deity, Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel.<\/p>\n

Christmas.<\/strong>\u00a0 Though not used in our Bible, this common description has been lost to commercialization and bad theology.\u00a0 It is easy to see the Christ in \u201cChristmas,\u201d but it is not so easy to see the incarnation, the coming of the Holy One into the unholy world.\u00a0 The Roman church uses the word \u201cmass\u201d to describe its sacrament of Eucharist.\u00a0 Christmas is the \u201cChrist-mass.\u201d\u00a0 In the mass, or Eucharist, they believe that Christ has again become incarnate, the bread and wine becoming His literal flesh and blood and (\u201cblasphemously\u201d) they crucify His flesh and blood again and again.<\/p>\n

I am not for forfeiting the word Christmas because of bad theology on their part.\u00a0 Though we do not believe in sacraments, and therefore do not participate in a mass, we certainly do believe that, when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal 4:4).\u00a0 When we say \u201cChristmas\u201d we are glad we can still use a word that has \u201cChrist\u201d in it!\u00a0 The commercialization of the season of our Lord\u2019s birth has caused our avaricious country to sell its Christian birthright.\u00a0 We will take the word \u201cChristmas\u201d and place no other meaning on it than what we believe: that God was incarnated into human flesh, revealed as the true God to a lost world, transfigured in light before our eyes, understood as Emmanuel, miraculously and eternally known as God with us!<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

And So . . . .<\/h3>\n

One of my favorite writers from a generation ago described the birth of our Lord in a similar way, when the sacred broke into the profane:<\/p>\n

\n

He was the earthly child of a Heavenly Father and the heavenly child of an earthly mother.\u00a0 If men had arranged His birthplace they might have chosen a palace; God chose a barn.\u00a0 Men might have prepared a royal crib; God prepared a feed trough.\u00a0 Men might have provided silken robes; God chose the swaddling clothes of a poor peasant.\u00a0 Men might have selected choice perfumes and spices; God came in the malodors of a stable.\u00a0 Think of it!\u00a0 The Prince of Glory couldn\u2019t find room in a Bethlehem boarding house!\u00a0 The King of kings, the son of a carpenter\u2019s wife!\u00a0 What a rebuke to our pride that He Who was so rich became so poor, when we who are so poor pretend to be so rich!2<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/div>\n

O holy night! The stars are brightly shining.<\/p>\n

It is the night of the dear Savior\u2019s birth;<\/p>\n

Long lay the world in sin and error pining,<\/p>\n

Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.<\/p>\n

A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,<\/p>\n

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;<\/p>\n

Fall on your knees, Oh, hear the angel voices!<\/p>\n

O night divine, O night when Christ was born!<\/p>\n

O night, O holy night, O night divine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As long as man lives in this world and in his present condition, there will be the struggle between the holy and the profane.\u00a0 We can no more rid ourselves of it than we can of heaven and hell, of God and men, or of sin and salvation.\u00a0 No sooner had God given the Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[167,146],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-christian-living-cross-discipleship","tag-incarnation"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As long as man lives in this world and in his present condition, there will be the struggle between the holy and the profane.\u00a0 We can no more rid ourselves of it than we can of heaven and hell, of God and men, or of sin and salvation.\u00a0 No sooner had God given the Law […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aletheia Baptist Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AletheiaBaptist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Book-Reviews-1024x1024.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rick Shrader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rick Shrader\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"11 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rick Shrader\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/588b75c574dc86d40cf5fb13774181b2\"},\"headline\":\"The Holy and the Profane\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\"},\"wordCount\":2161,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Christian Living \/ Cross \/ Discipleship\",\"Incarnation\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\",\"name\":\"The Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Holy and the Profane\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/\",\"name\":\"Aletheia Baptist Ministries\",\"description\":\"Rick Shrader's Blog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Aletheia Baptist Ministries\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bible-study.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bible-study.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":277,\"caption\":\"Aletheia Baptist Ministries\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AletheiaBaptist\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/588b75c574dc86d40cf5fb13774181b2\",\"name\":\"Rick Shrader\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7c8bdc017347d423d458094a09c43d05fb368007ffcd14de5437afe5cc616c7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7c8bdc017347d423d458094a09c43d05fb368007ffcd14de5437afe5cc616c7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rick Shrader\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/author\/rick\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries","og_description":"As long as man lives in this world and in his present condition, there will be the struggle between the holy and the profane.\u00a0 We can no more rid ourselves of it than we can of heaven and hell, of God and men, or of sin and salvation.\u00a0 No sooner had God given the Law […]","og_url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/","og_site_name":"Aletheia Baptist Ministries","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AletheiaBaptist","article_published_time":"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Book-Reviews-1024x1024.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Rick Shrader","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rick Shrader","Est. reading time":"11 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/"},"author":{"name":"Rick Shrader","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/588b75c574dc86d40cf5fb13774181b2"},"headline":"The Holy and the Profane","datePublished":"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00","dateModified":"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/"},"wordCount":2161,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["Christian Living \/ Cross \/ Discipleship","Incarnation"],"articleSection":["Articles"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/","url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/","name":"The Holy and the Profane - Aletheia Baptist Ministries","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-12-25T00:16:25+00:00","dateModified":"2014-02-02T02:03:47+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/december-qthe-holy-and-the-profaneq\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Holy and the Profane"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/","name":"Aletheia Baptist Ministries","description":"Rick Shrader's Blog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#organization","name":"Aletheia Baptist Ministries","url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bible-study.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bible-study.jpg","width":400,"height":277,"caption":"Aletheia Baptist Ministries"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AletheiaBaptist"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/588b75c574dc86d40cf5fb13774181b2","name":"Rick Shrader","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7c8bdc017347d423d458094a09c43d05fb368007ffcd14de5437afe5cc616c7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7c8bdc017347d423d458094a09c43d05fb368007ffcd14de5437afe5cc616c7b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rick Shrader"},"url":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/author\/rick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}