{"id":327,"date":"2021-01-20T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=327"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:15:13","slug":"the-renewed-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"the renewed mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s a fight to the death going on inside you right now and there\u2019s no option of retirement!&nbsp; &nbsp;But who\u2019s \ufb01ghting, and for what?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The battle started the minute you put your trust in Christ and will not stop until death, or the Lord\u2019s Return, when the victory will be finally won \u2013 by our glorious Lord Himself. The battle is for your mind!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Philosophers and many others have been pondering for millennia as to what \u2018the mind\u2019 really is. Does the mind control the brain or is it just a function of the brain? How does it interact with the personality and emotions? Is it synonymous with what the Bible calls \u2018the heart\u2019? Is it just the chemical interactions in the stuff we call \u2018grey matter\u2019 \u2013 the result of aeons of evolution favouring those whose brains developed the ability to think?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a fight to the death going on inside you right now and there\u2019s no option of retirement!&nbsp; &nbsp;But who\u2019s \ufb01ghting, and for what? The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}