{"id":351195,"date":"2026-04-17T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351195"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:37:49","slug":"also-to-the-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/also-to-the-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Also to the Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?\u2019 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, \u2018Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.\u2019 (Acts 11:17-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor the disciples, it was a novelty that Gentiles could also repent of their sins; and, seeing this, they did not dispute those who believed in Jesus and also received the gift of the Holy Spirit, thus understanding that salvation is for all peoples.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?\u2019 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, \u2018Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.\u2019 (Acts 11:17-18) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351197,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351195\/revisions\/351197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351195"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}