{"id":3602,"date":"2014-07-31T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2014-07-31T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:19:13","slug":"means-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Means of grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1 Peter 3:18-21<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us\u00a0to God&#8230;[as]\u00a0in the days of Noah, while\u00a0the\u00a0ark was being prepared,&#8230;eight souls were saved through water. There is also an antitype which now saves us&#8212;baptism&#8212; through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is certainly a difficult passage. \u00a0Perhaps this is what it means:<\/p>\n<p>1. Christ suffered and died once for sins, the sins of the whole world.<br \/>\n2. We are saved by the grace of God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This salvation is given to us in baptism, which is an antitype. \u00a0Noah was saved <em>out of<\/em> the waters of the flood. The ark was God&#8217;s means of grace. \u00a0We are saved <em>in<\/em> the waters of baptism, which is for us a means of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 3:18-21 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us\u00a0to God&#8230;[as]\u00a0in the days of Noah, while\u00a0the\u00a0ark was being prepared,&#8230;eight souls were saved through water. There is also an antitype which now saves us&#8212;baptism&#8212; through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is certainly a difficult passage. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Means of grace&#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\/3602"}],"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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}