{"id":2632,"date":"2013-01-27T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2013-02-03T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:59:47","slug":"what-is-the-gospel-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"What is the gospel? (2\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord God: &#8220;Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people, says the Lord God.&#8221; Ezekiel 45:9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?\u00a0 It is the solution to the puzzle that is life.\u00a0 It is the end of the search for ultimate meaning and ultimate purpose.\u00a0 It is the only way out of futility.\u00a0 It ties up the loose ends.\u00a0 It makes the most sense of the most facts. It is the end of striving.\u00a0 It is the beginning of striving.\u00a0 It shines a bright light on evil.\u00a0 It gives suffering its only real value.\u00a0 It is the only thing more powerful than death.\u00a0 It is life&#8212;eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord God: &#8220;Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people, says the Lord God.&#8221; Ezekiel 45:9 What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?\u00a0 It is the solution to the puzzle that is life.\u00a0 It is the end of the search for ultimate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the gospel? (2\/3)&#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\/2632"}],"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=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}