{"id":4605,"date":"2023-01-03T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","slug":"cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4605","title":{"rendered":"CORNELIUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>\u00b7<spanTimes New Roman\"' style=\"font: 7.0pt\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span Times New Roman\",serif;font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 107%'>Doctor Luke informs us that Cornelius \u201cand\nall his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people\nand prayed to God regularly.\u201d (v.2)<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>\u00b7<spanTimes New Roman\"' style=\"font: 7.0pt\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span Times New Roman\",serif;font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 107%'>The angel God sent to him reports, \u201cYour\nprayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.\u201d\n(v.4)<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>\u00b7<spanTimes New Roman\"' style=\"font: 7.0pt\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span Times New Roman\",serif;font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 107%'>His own servants describe Cornelius as \u201ca\nrighteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish\nnation.\u201d (v.22)<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-indent: -0.25in\">His heart seems right,\nbut it is clear his theological understanding is faulty at best. As Peter\napproaches his house, \u201cCornelius met [Peter] and fell at his feet to worship\nhim\u201d! (v.25)<\/span><span Times New Roman\", serif;font-size: 12pt;text-indent: 0.5in'>Peter\u2019s first correction\nof Cornelius\u2019 implicit theology is direct and firm: \u201cStand up \u2026 I am only a man\nmyself.\u201d (v.26)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His heart seems right, but it is clear his theological understanding is faulty at best. As Peter approaches his house, \u201cCornelius met [Peter] and fell at his feet to worship him\u201d! (v.25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}