{"id":3636,"date":"2014-08-11T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T12:31:03","slug":"or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0I John 4:10<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son\u00a0to be\u00a0the propitiation for our sins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does the word <em>propitiation<\/em> mean in the context of this verse, and others like it in the Scriptures?<\/p>\n<p>Propitiation normally carries the idea of appeasement, of placating the wrath or anger of a deity. \u00a0Some scholars think this verse and others like it would be better translated by using the word <em>expiation<\/em> instead. \u00a0Expiation is the removal of a problem and carries the idea of cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>Did Jesus suffer to placate the wrath of God, or did His suffering serve to expiate our sins?<\/p>\n<p>Or both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son\u00a0to be\u00a0the propitiation for our sins. What does the word propitiation mean in the context of this verse, and others like it in the Scriptures? Propitiation normally carries the idea of appeasement, of placating the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Or both?&#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\/3636"}],"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=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}