{"id":8892,"date":"2021-01-24T23:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2021-01-24T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T03:07:54","slug":"changing-our-minds-not-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"Changing Our Minds, Not God&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohr-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohr-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohr-19.jpg 796w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohr-19-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohr-19-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As John puts it, &#8220;He will show the world how wrong it was about sin, about who was really in the right, and about true judgment&#8221; (16:8).  This is what Jesus is exposing and defeating on the cross.  <em>He did not come to change God&#8217;s mind about us.  It did not need changing.  Jesus came to change our minds about God &#8212; and about ourselves &#8212; and about where goodness and evil really lie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/universal_christ.html\">The Universal Christ<\/a><\/em>, p. 151<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 21, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As John puts it, &#8220;He will show the world how wrong it was about sin, about who was really in the right, and about true judgment&#8221; (16:8). This is what Jesus is exposing and defeating on the cross. He did not come to change God&#8217;s mind about us. It did not need changing. Jesus came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,56,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-jesus","category-love","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","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=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}