{"id":7521,"date":"2018-11-25T23:19:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2018-11-25T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:28:48","slug":"restoration-mightier-than-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7521","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Mightier Than the Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Allin-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Allin-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Allin-8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Allin-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Allin-8-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I plead for the acceptance of the larger hope, as taught by so many in primitive days (a fact fully proved); a hope, that it has ever been the purpose of &#8220;our Father&#8221; to save all his human children.  To believe or to hope for less than this would be, not alone to contradict Scripture, as I have tried to show, but to mistake its whole scope and purpose.  For the Bible is the story of a restoration, wide; deep; mightier than the fall, and therefore bringing to every child of Adam salvation.  It is not, as the popular creed teaches, the self-contradictory story of one almighty to save, and yet not, in fact, saving those for whom he died.  It is the story of infinite love seeking &#8220;till it find&#8221;; a love that never fails, <em>never<\/em>, though heaven and earth pass away: a love that is, from its very nature, <em>inextinguishable<\/em> &#8212; being the love of a divine Father.  It is the story of the unchanging purpose of the unchanging Lord God Omnipotent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Thomas Allin, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/christ_triumphant.html\">Christ Triumphant<\/a><\/em>, p. 334<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, September 21, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plead for the acceptance of the larger hope, as taught by so many in primitive days (a fact fully proved); a hope, that it has ever been the purpose of &#8220;our Father&#8221; to save all his human children. To believe or to hope for less than this would be, not alone to contradict Scripture, [&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-7521","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\/7521","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=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}