{"id":2195,"date":"2012-09-26T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2012-09-27T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:39:26","slug":"you-have-to-be-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"You have to be immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And He will stretch out His hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.\u00a0The herds shall lie down in her midst, every beast of the nation. Both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars. Their voice shall sing in the windows. Desolation shall be at the threshold, for He will lay bare the cedar work.\u00a0This is the rejoicing city that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI&#8212;and\u00a0 none besides me.\u201d\u00a0How has she become a desolation!\u00a0\u00a0 Zephaniah 2:13-15<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even if there were no God, there would be no way to apply for the\u00a0position.<br \/>\nTo be God, you have to be immortal.<br \/>\nNone of us are.<br \/>\nTo be God, you have to be totally unique, beyond comparison to anything or anyone else.<br \/>\nWe are all the same.<br \/>\nTo be God, you have to be able to\u00a0truly say, &#8220;I am, and\u00a0none besides me.&#8221;<br \/>\nNinevah&#8217;s application was flatly rejected.\u00a0 Ours would be too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And He will stretch out His hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.\u00a0The herds shall lie down in her midst, every beast of the nation. Both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars. Their voice shall sing in the windows. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You have to be immortal&#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\/2195"}],"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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}