{"id":1161,"date":"2011-12-11T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2011-12-13T07:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:20:51","slug":"ecclesiastes-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"(Ecclesiastes 6) Full of promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there\u2019s no use arguing with God about your destiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where old King Solomon is coming from here. Read one way, this verse is very fatalistic. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe in fatalism. I believe that life is dynamic, and full of promise. As a minister told me years ago when I was a young man: &#8220;Just all of you, given to all of Him, will make your life all God ever planned it to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there\u2019s no use arguing with God about your destiny.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure where old King Solomon is coming from here. Read one way, this verse is very fatalistic. I don&#8217;t believe in fatalism. I believe that life is dynamic, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Ecclesiastes 6) Full of promise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}