{"id":10,"date":"2010-06-09T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:17:23","slug":"thats-one-way-to-understand-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/thats-one-way-to-understand-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way to understand human nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article in the Independent on Saturday 5th June 2010 presents one view of human nature: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/julian-baggini-there-is-no-one-either-good-or-bad-but-circumstances-make-them-so-1991792.html\" target=\"_blank\">There is no one either good or bad, but circumstances make them so<\/a>. But as a Christian who believes in man&#8217;s sinfulness, it is a highly frustrating read as it provides no real answer. It also shifts man&#8217;s responsibility on circumstances: It&#8217;s not my fault, it&#8217;s the circumstances, I didn&#8217;t have any choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in the Independent on Saturday 5th June 2010 presents one view of human nature: There is no one either good or bad, but circumstances make them so. But as a Christian who believes in man&#8217;s sinfulness, it is a highly frustrating read as it provides no real answer. It also shifts man&#8217;s responsibility &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/thats-one-way-to-understand-human-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s one way to understand human nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,46],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-philosophy","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}