{"id":4637,"date":"2018-10-15T19:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2018-10-15T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:46:35","slug":"love-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"Love &#038; Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <span style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">is often argued by the Reformed that God is sovereign and doesn\u2019t have to save anyone if He chooses not to. On the other hand, He does have to punish sin. So God has to punish sin, but He doesn\u2019t have to save sinners. It\u2019s very interesting that justice (or at least what the Reformed see as justice) becomes the defining characteristic of God rather than love. Justice forces God to respond to our actions, but love does not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often argued by the Reformed that God is sovereign and doesn\u2019t have to save anyone if He chooses not to. On the other hand, He does have to punish sin. So God has to punish sin, but He doesn\u2019t have to save sinners. It\u2019s very interesting that justice (or at least what the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Love &#038; Justice&#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\/4637"}],"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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}