{"id":9311,"date":"2025-01-24T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:10:13","slug":"free-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9311","title":{"rendered":"Free Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Baker12-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But if we look at the life and teachings of Jesus we see a vastly different image of God.  We see a God of love and peace, who freely forgives sin without first balancing the cosmic accounts.  As the fullest revelation of God, Jesus never demands retribution.  He never talks about his offended honor.  He forgives and heals and saves unconditionally.  He is the Prince of Peace who reveals to us the true nature of God and tells us so when he says, &#8220;whoever has seen me has seen the Father&#8221; (John 14:9).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sharon L. Baker, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/executing_god.html\">Executing God<\/a><\/em>, p. 73<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  View from Burg Montfort, Germany, June 19, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But if we look at the life and teachings of Jesus we see a vastly different image of God. We see a God of love and peace, who freely forgives sin without first balancing the cosmic accounts. As the fullest revelation of God, Jesus never demands retribution. He never talks about his offended honor. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,11,13,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atonement","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-jesus","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","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=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9399,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions\/9399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}