{"id":2886,"date":"2013-04-07T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2013-04-21T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:35:11","slug":"free-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Free decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?\u00a0<\/em><em><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><em>But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 26:53- 54<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are no ifs, ands or buts about our salvation.\u00a0\u00a0Yet here the Lord reveals to his disciples\u00a0that their salvation, though predestined from before the foundation of the world, is nevertheless based on His own voluntary, free decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?\u00a0\u00a0But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 26:53- 54 There are no ifs, ands or buts about our salvation.\u00a0\u00a0Yet here the Lord &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free decision&#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\/2886"}],"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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}