{"id":8075,"date":"2019-08-02T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T02:47:55","slug":"not-of-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8075","title":{"rendered":"Not of Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gray-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gray-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gray-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot pick up a New Testament and find anywhere in it the statement that it is &#8220;by faith you have been saved&#8221; or it is &#8220;by repentance you have been saved.&#8221;  I find this to be a very confusing situation, as the message from many churches I have attended, and many Christians to whom I speak, is exactly that.  I hear over and over again that there is something we must do to get ourselves saved.  It might be faith, it might be repentance; some people even say baptism.  Whatever it might be, whatever hoops you believe God demands you jump through; it is not what the Bible says.  The Bible teaches us that God has gone out of the &#8220;hoop jumping&#8221; business for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Peter Gray, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/until_they_are_found.html\">Until They Are Found<\/a>,<\/em> p. 48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, July 26, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot pick up a New Testament and find anywhere in it the statement that it is &#8220;by faith you have been saved&#8221; or it is &#8220;by repentance you have been saved.&#8221; I find this to be a very confusing situation, as the message from many churches I have attended, and many Christians to whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}