{"id":662,"date":"2008-11-15T00:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T04:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/11\/15\/a-journey-to-god\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T00:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T04:26:45","slug":"a-journey-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"A Journey to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you buy the evangelical born-again &#8220;Jesus saves&#8221; mantra, the idea that salvation is a journey goes out the window.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re living in the realm of a magical formula.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to me that the Orthodox idea of a slow journey to God, wherein no one is altogether instantly &#8220;saved&#8221; or &#8220;lost&#8221; and nothing is completely resolved in this life (and perhaps not in the next), mirrors the reality of how life works, at least as I&#8217;ve experienced it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Frank Schaeffer, <em>Crazy for God, <\/em>p. 390<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you buy the evangelical born-again &#8220;Jesus saves&#8221; mantra, the idea that salvation is a journey goes out the window.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re living in the realm of a magical formula.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to me that the Orthodox idea of a slow journey to God, wherein no one is altogether instantly &#8220;saved&#8221; or &#8220;lost&#8221; and nothing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-growth","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}