{"id":1452,"date":"2015-02-07T23:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2015-02-07T23:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:27:25","slug":"those-who-perfection-seek-shall-be-smited-for-their-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-who-perfection-seek-shall-be-smited-for-their-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Perfection Seek Shall Be Smited for Their Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fqUwsFuNumA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those who total perfection seek shall be smited for their Pride<br \/>\nFor to achieve perfection is to say you are better than all others<br \/>\nGod made man with qualities of both bad and good inside<br \/>\nNo one, though he may think himself to be, is any better than another<\/p>\n<p>Some seek perfection in faith, declare here other beliefs<br \/>\nAnd decree that damned others shall be on their death<br \/>\nThey shall find, when death catches them unawares like a thief<br \/>\nThat they were far from salvation, and on the wrong road had set<\/p>\n<p>Fools before in Babylon set a tower to build to Heaven as perfect men<br \/>\nAnd angers God by the audacity of its construction<br \/>\nH confused their tongues, so they could never claim to speak a Holy Tongue again<br \/>\nAnd of the towel and Babylon knew destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Fools across the world before and in the present day<br \/>\nHold books, declare their faith the one pure and true<br \/>\nAnd angered God again, as did the Tower builders did in their way<br \/>\nSo God said their insolence they would rue.<\/p>\n<p>And God went down and set doubt in the minds of man<br \/>\nAfter confusing their tongues he now confused their faith<br \/>\nFor it is by how a man lives, not by what professes to Believe<br \/>\nShall make him see Salvation, or be Turned from Heavens Gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who total perfection seek shall be smited for their Pride For to achieve perfection is to say you are better than all others God made man with qualities of both bad and good inside No one, though he may think himself to be, is any better than another Some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[827,446,880,522,6],"tags":[1660,1661,544,1659,1018],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-epics","category-moral","category-philosophy","category-poems-of-faith","category-video-poetry","tag-bible","tag-epic","tag-moral-2","tag-perfection","tag-tower-of-babylon","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-nq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":782,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/babylons-tower-fell-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1452,"position":0},"title":"Babylon&#8217;s Tower Fell Down","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Babylons tower fell down After angering god by Heaven trying to reach And so God toppled the tower Confused their tongues, a lesson for to teach. 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