{"id":914,"date":"2023-01-30T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:00:55","slug":"charles-taze-russell-fires-back-at-critics-the-bible-doesnt-say-the-holy-spirit-is-an-invisible-active-force-george-lucas-does-in-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Charles Taze Russell Fires Back at Critics; \u201cThe Bible Doesn\u2019t Say the Holy Spirit is an Invisible Active Force, George Lucas Does in Star Wars\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Beyond the Satire Note \u2013 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses believe that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal \u201cforce\u201d of God. Read their beliefs for yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/bible-teachings\/questions\/what-is-the-holy-spirit\/\">https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/bible-teachings\/questions\/what-is-the-holy-spirit\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pampa Texas \u2013 Charles Taze Russell began his sermon this past Sunday with moving words for any Star Wars fan. \u201cMay the Father, the Son, and the Force be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Russell, the idea that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force is found nowhere in the Bible so naturally, he started looking at Star Wars. \u201cThe original trilogy presents the closest thing I can find to what my idea of the Holy Spirit is,\u201d Russell told congregants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JW founder then went on to deliver a sermon that went conservatively three and a half hours long exegeting Yoda\u2019s lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In related news, Russell retranslated Jesus\u2019s promise to send a helper as \u2018May the Force be with you.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the Satire Note \u2013 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses believe that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal \u201cforce\u201d of God. Read their beliefs for yourself. https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/bible-teachings\/questions\/what-is-the-holy-spirit\/ Pampa Texas \u2013 Charles Taze Russell began his sermon this past Sunday with moving words for any Star Wars fan. \u201cMay the Father, the Son, and the Force be with you.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}