{"id":7169,"date":"2018-09-30T22:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:53:02","slug":"god-is-like-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"God Is Like Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zahnd-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zahnd-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zahnd-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zahnd-5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Zahnd-5-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217;s entire life was a demonstration of the true nature of God.  As Jesus heals the sick, forgives the sinner, receives the outcast, restores the fallen, and supremely as he dies on a cross forgiving his killers, he reveals what God is like.  To see Jesus is to see the Father.  At last we know that God is not like the thunderbolt-hurling Zeus or any of the other angry gods in the pantheon of terrorized religious imagination.  God is like Jesus, nailed to a tree, offering forgiveness.  God is not a monster.  God is like Jesus!<\/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. 93-94<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Staffa Island, Scotland, July 13, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus&#8217;s entire life was a demonstration of the true nature of God. As Jesus heals the sick, forgives the sinner, receives the outcast, restores the fallen, and supremely as he dies on a cross forgiving his killers, he reveals what God is like. To see Jesus is to see the Father. At last we know [&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-7169","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\/7169","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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}