{"id":727,"date":"2014-02-03T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=727"},"modified":"2014-02-03T00:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:11:44","slug":"a-better-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/a-better-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, i guessed i just liberated from one more “false” doctrine out there. Somehow, I couldn’t understand why i believed and many others too. For one my ex-teacher told me,”to be a better man, get married!”.<\/p>\n

I soon got married, and my friends teased me that I’ve chosen the path to be a better man. And for some times, I was happy and feel that I’ve become a better man. What a foolish person I was.<\/p>\n

Lately, I notice how wrong that is. For one, there are many married man, and they did not turn better with the length of years of their marriage. I am afraid that some probably went to get worse instead.<\/p>\n

And second, the most powerful and compelling truth about what could change a person \/ make a person to be better, actually is the Son of God. It is not the status of a person that makes a person better \/ worse. Only the work of the Son of God, who lives in me, that makes me to be a better person. For the Bible clearly says that we’re all transformed into the likeness of God’s son every day (2 Cor 3:18). And that certainly will make all believers a better person each day, regardless whether they’re single or married!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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