{"id":8997,"date":"2021-03-21T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:24:11","slug":"not-if-but-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8997","title":{"rendered":"Not If, But When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-28.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-28-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rohr-28-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I have often said, salvation is not a question of <em>if<\/em>, but <em>when<\/em>.  Once you see with God&#8217;s eyes, you will see all things and enjoy all things in proper and full perspective.  Some put this off till the moment of death or even afterward (&#8220;purgatory&#8221; was our strange word for this).  Salvation, for me, is simply to have the &#8220;mind of Christ&#8221; (1 Corinthians 2:16), which Paul describes as &#8220;making the world, life and death, the present and the future &#8212; all your servants &#8212; because you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God&#8221; (1 Corinthians 3:23).<\/p>\n<p><em>Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>This knowing and this enjoying are a good description for salvation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/universal_christ.html\">The Universal Christ<\/a><\/em>, p. 225<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 22, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have often said, salvation is not a question of if, but when. Once you see with God&#8217;s eyes, you will see all things and enjoy all things in proper and full perspective. Some put this off till the moment of death or even afterward (&#8220;purgatory&#8221; was our strange word for this). Salvation, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,56,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-jesus","category-redemption","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","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=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}