{"id":4113,"date":"2015-10-05T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2015-10-05T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:10:52","slug":"not-an-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4113","title":{"rendered":"Not an abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the\u00a0Lord\u00a0had destroyed before the children of Israel. 2 Kings 21:9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The story of Israel is a saga of failure, even though a few were found faithful.<\/p>\n<p>The LORD is the transcendent God, the infinite God, the High and Holy One inhabiting eternity, and yet He is not unfeeling, uncaring, un-acting. The wrath of the LORD is not an abstraction, nor, thankfully, is His mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the\u00a0Lord\u00a0had destroyed before the children of Israel. 2 Kings 21:9 The story of Israel is a saga of failure, even though a few were found faithful. The LORD is the transcendent God, the infinite God, the High and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not an abstraction&#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\/4113"}],"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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}