{"id":3426,"date":"2014-05-16T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2014-05-16T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:06:53","slug":"agree-and-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Agree and disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1 Thessalonians 1:9-10<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead,\u00a0even\u00a0Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If God is unconditional grace, how do we understand &#8216;the wrath to come&#8217;? \u00a0I haven\u2019t come up yet with an answer that fully satisfies me, though I am utterly convinced that in Jesus Christ the Father loves us absolutely and unconditionally.&#8221; \u00a0This from an Orthodox priest in a recent online discussion.<\/p>\n<p>With so much of what I read in theology these days, I both agree and disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead,\u00a0even\u00a0Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. &#8220;If God is unconditional grace, how do we understand &#8216;the wrath to come&#8217;? \u00a0I haven\u2019t come up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agree and disagree&#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\/3426"}],"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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}