{"id":5103,"date":"2018-01-23T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2018-01-23T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:24:09","slug":"redemption-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet.  But here is the difference.  In many expressions of pagan religion, the humans have to try to pacify the angry deity.  But that&#8217;s not how it happens in Israel&#8217;s scriptures.  The biblical promises of redemption have to do with God himself acting because of his unchanging, unshakeable love for his people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; N. T. Wright, <em>The Day the Revolution Began<\/em>, p. 132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet. But here is the difference. In many expressions of pagan religion, the humans have to try to pacify the angry deity. But that&#8217;s not how it happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","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=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}