{"id":6060,"date":"2018-05-04T22:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2018-05-04T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:44:26","slug":"god-as-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6060","title":{"rendered":"God as Savior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/At-the-Cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/At-the-Cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/At-the-Cross.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/At-the-Cross-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/At-the-Cross-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cross is many things, but it is not a quid pro quo to mollify an angry God.  Above all things, the cross, as the definitive moment in Jesus&#8217;s life, is the supreme revelation of the very nature of God.  At the cross Jesus does not save us from God; at the cross Jesus reveals God as savior!  When we look at the cross we don&#8217;t see what God <em>does<\/em>; we see who God <em>is<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian Zahnd, <em>Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God<\/em>, p. 82<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Glenveagh, Ireland, July 2001]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross is many things, but it is not a quid pro quo to mollify an angry God. Above all things, the cross, as the definitive moment in Jesus&#8217;s life, is the supreme revelation of the very nature of God. At the cross Jesus does not save us from God; at the cross Jesus reveals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}