{"id":2164,"date":"2022-04-04T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T22:06:02","slug":"the-central-purpose-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/the-central-purpose-of-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Purpose of Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">In the end, the central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ\u2014faith that They exist; faith in the Father\u2019s plan for our immortality and eternal life; faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness; faith to make the gospel of Jesus Christ our way of life; and faith to come to know \u201cthe only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom [He has] sent\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/nt\/john\/17.3?lang=eng#p3\">John 17:3<\/a>). \u2013 <em>D. Todd Christofferson, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2010\/04\/the-blessing-of-scripture?lang=eng\">The Blessing of Scripture<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, the central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ\u2014faith that They exist; faith in the Father\u2019s plan for our immortality and eternal life; faith in the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which animates this plan of happiness; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}