{"id":8669,"date":"2020-09-11T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T03:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2020-09-11T23:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T03:02:59","slug":"god-unwrathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8669","title":{"rendered":"God Unwrathed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jersak-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jersak-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jersak-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jersak-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jersak-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cross reveals God unwrathed &#8212; nonviolent, self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love.  And this &#8212; impossibly, amazingly &#8212; is how he overcomes evil with good.  God in Christ draws all the evil, all the sin, all the violence and the resulting suffering into himself.  And the Light of his love overcomes the darkness so that from that moment, &#8220;It is finished&#8221; also means &#8220;It begins!&#8221;  What begins?  <em>&#8220;Behold, I am making all things new!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_way.html\">A More Christlike Way<\/a><\/em>, p. 169<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 24, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cross reveals God unwrathed &#8212; nonviolent, self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love. And this &#8212; impossibly, amazingly &#8212; is how he overcomes evil with good. God in Christ draws all the evil, all the sin, all the violence and the resulting suffering into himself. And the Light of his love overcomes the darkness so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-healing","category-jesus","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}