{"id":2444,"date":"2012-12-02T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:34:46","slug":"except-that-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2444","title":{"rendered":"Except that it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, \u201cThere is not a man on earth who can tell the king\u2019s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean.\u00a0\u00a0It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Daniel 2:10-11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With all due respect, it isn&#8217;t done that way, O King.\u00a0 Tell us the dream first, and then we&#8217;ll get back with you.\u00a0 Only the gods above could actually tell you what <em>you<\/em> dreamed, O King, and they aren&#8217;t anywhere around that we might inquire of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know where this is going.\u00a0 The Christian gospel that God&#8212;God&#8212;became a real man, and not only a man but a servant, and not only a servant but a sacrifice for the sins of mankind, is\u00a0absolutely a unique idea in history.<\/p>\n<p>It is news, good news that is too good to be true, except that it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, \u201cThere is not a man on earth who can tell the king\u2019s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean.\u00a0\u00a0It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Except that it is&#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\/2444"}],"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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}