{"id":10001,"date":"2026-08-10T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:33:02","slug":"unrelenting-and-restorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10001","title":{"rendered":"Unrelenting and Restorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Recker5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Recker5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Recker5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Recker5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the doctrine of hell, which is never clearly spelled out in the Bible, the unrelenting, restorative love of God &#8211; which does not count our sins against us but instead works all things together for good in order not only to redeem people from every tribe, tongue, and nation but also to liberate all of creation &#8211; is spelled out in the Bible time and time again.  It is arguably the unifying theme of the whole book.  Over and over, the people of the Bible are drawn into the unrelenting love of God on the other side of their failures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian Recker, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hell_bent.html\">Hell Bent<\/a><\/em>, p. 106<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mont Saint-Michel, seen from across the bay, June 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the doctrine of hell, which is never clearly spelled out in the Bible, the unrelenting, restorative love of God &#8211; which does not count our sins against us but instead works all things together for good in order not only to redeem people from every tribe, tongue, and nation but also to liberate all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,57,15,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-grace","category-love","category-redemption","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}