{"id":6545,"date":"2018-07-01T20:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2018-07-01T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T01:04:15","slug":"a-picture-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6545","title":{"rendered":"A Picture of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zahnd-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zahnd-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zahnd-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zahnd-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Zahnd-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cross is not a picture of payment; the cross is a picture of forgiveness.  Good Friday is not about divine wrath; Good Friday is about divine love.  Calvary is not where we see how violent God is; Calvary is where we see how violent our civilization is.  The justice of God is not retributive; the justice of God is restorative.  Justice that is purely retributive changes nothing.  The cross is not where God finds a whipping boy to vent his rage upon; the cross is where God saves the world through self-sacrificing love.  The only thing God will call justice is setting the world right, not punishing an innocent substitute for the petty sake of appeasement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian Zahnd, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/sinners_in_the_hands_of_a_loving_god.html\">Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God<\/a><\/em>, p. 86<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Keukenhof, Holland, April 17, 2004]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross is not a picture of payment; the cross is a picture of forgiveness. Good Friday is not about divine wrath; Good Friday is about divine love. Calvary is not where we see how violent God is; Calvary is where we see how violent our civilization is. The justice of God is not retributive; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","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=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}