{"id":2179,"date":"2012-09-22T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2012-09-23T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T12:32:57","slug":"who-but-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Who but God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBehold, I am against you,\u201d says the Lord of hosts. \u00a0\u201cI will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.\u00a0I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle.\u00a0It shall come to pass that all who look upon you will flee from you, and say, \u2018Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?\u2019 \u00a0Where shall I seek comforters for you?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Nahum 3:5-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Was the sin of Nineveh an affront to God&#8217;s righteousness?\u00a0 Did their wickedness bring dishonor to God&#8217;s name?\u00a0 Was the justice of God satisfied through their destruction?\u00a0 Is it correct to think of God as the Great Punisher?\u00a0 How can God be Holy and Just\u00a0if He is not also Wrathful?\u00a0 What is the wrath of God?\u00a0 If, as the Scripture says elsewhere, &#8216;the wicked nations will be cast into hell&#8217;, who but God could be\u00a0doing the casting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBehold, I am against you,\u201d says the Lord of hosts. \u00a0\u201cI will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.\u00a0I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle.\u00a0It shall come to pass that all who look upon you will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who but God?&#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\/2179"}],"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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}