{"id":6041,"date":"2018-05-02T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2018-05-02T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T03:17:21","slug":"the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"The Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Good-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Good-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Good-News.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Good-News-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Good-News-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atonement theories are <em>not<\/em> the gospel.  Across the New Testament, while metaphors do appear to hint at the &#8220;how&#8221; of atonement, the emphasis is not on these symbolic explanations, but on the story itself.  Preaching the gospel never meant theorizing how atonement happens but, rather, proclaiming good news: the events and impacts of Christ&#8217;s life, death and resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em>A More Christlike God<\/em>, p. 230<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Meadowlark Gardens, Virginia, April 3, 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atonement theories are not the gospel. Across the New Testament, while metaphors do appear to hint at the &#8220;how&#8221; of atonement, the emphasis is not on these symbolic explanations, but on the story itself. Preaching the gospel never meant theorizing how atonement happens but, rather, proclaiming good news: the events and impacts of Christ&#8217;s life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11,13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","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=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}