{"id":9307,"date":"2024-02-11T23:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2024-02-11T23:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T03:06:21","slug":"gods-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9307","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Baker10-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If God required the execution of an innocent man before God could save us, then what does that say about God&#8217;s power?  Or God&#8217;s goodness?  Isn&#8217;t God powerful enough to forgive sin without an unjust execution?  Isn&#8217;t God good enough to desire to use divine power to save us without violence?  If we think in terms of &#8220;ransom,&#8221; in which Jesus pays God for our release from eternal death, then Go saves through bribery.  These thoughts about God&#8217;s actions should upset our moral equilibrium &#8212; the morality that God instilled in us.  When we hold to our traditional theories of atonement we choke out God&#8217;s compassion, grace, and power to heal and save us and compromise love with the divine necessity for retribution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sharon L. Baker, <em>Executing God<\/em>, p. 70<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 8, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God required the execution of an innocent man before God could save us, then what does that say about God&#8217;s power? Or God&#8217;s goodness? Isn&#8217;t God powerful enough to forgive sin without an unjust execution? Isn&#8217;t God good enough to desire to use divine power to save us without violence? If we think in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,57,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god","category-grace","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","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=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9309,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions\/9309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}