{"id":5638,"date":"2018-03-21T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:53:22","slug":"saving-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Save-the-Lost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Save-the-Lost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Save-the-Lost.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Save-the-Lost-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there is a further difficulty in the way of the popular creed.  Who are those whom it represents as finally unsaved? &#8212; the finally impenitent, the most obstinate sinners.  And what is that but to say, in so many words, that those precisely whose case furnished the strongest reason for the Saviour&#8217;s mission are unsaved?  Admit their guilt, recognize as we do to the very utmost the need and the certainty of retribution; still, when all this has been said, it remains true that Christ came to save the &#8220;lost,&#8221; and if so, the more &#8220;lost&#8221; any are, the more Christ came to seek and to save them, and if he fails, the more marked his failure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Thomas Allin, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/christ_triumphant.html\">Christ Triumphant<\/a><\/em>, p. 39<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 21, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there is a further difficulty in the way of the popular creed. Who are those whom it represents as finally unsaved? &#8212; the finally impenitent, the most obstinate sinners. And what is that but to say, in so many words, that those precisely whose case furnished the strongest reason for the Saviour&#8217;s mission are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-redemption","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}