{"id":421,"date":"2008-03-19T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/19\/why-christ-died\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T01:07:24","slug":"why-christ-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Why Christ Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ did not die to save us from suffering but from ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 He did not die to save us from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust.<\/p>\n<p>He died that we might live &#8212; but live as he lives, by dying as he died, who died to himself that he might live unto God.\u00c2\u00a0 If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God.\u00c2\u00a0 And he that does not live to God is dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George MacDonald, <em>Your Life in Christ, <\/em>p. 149-150<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ did not die to save us from suffering but from ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 He did not die to save us from injustice, far less from justice, but from being unjust. He died that we might live &#8212; but live as he lives, by dying as he died, who died to himself that he might live unto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}