{"id":7047,"date":"2018-09-03T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:46:20","slug":"punishing-in-order-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7047","title":{"rendered":"Punishing in Order to Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bradley-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bradley-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bradley-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bradley-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Bradley-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s active involvement in drawing people to repentance is not to be thought of as an activity that is separate from God&#8217;s activity of punishing people for their involvement in wrongdoing, as is often assumed by many traditionalist Christians.  God does not punish people <em>instead<\/em> of saving them from their sins, but, if the foregoing picture of divine punishment is true, God punishes people (by showing them the essential ugliness of their sins) <em>so that<\/em> God can save them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Heath Bradley, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/flames_of_love.html\">Flames of Love<\/a><\/em>, p. 77<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Carlyle Lake, Illinois, October 1992<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s active involvement in drawing people to repentance is not to be thought of as an activity that is separate from God&#8217;s activity of punishing people for their involvement in wrongdoing, as is often assumed by many traditionalist Christians. God does not punish people instead of saving them from their sins, but, if the foregoing [&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-7047","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\/7047","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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}