{"id":4905,"date":"2020-01-20T22:59:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T02:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:32:05","slug":"ccc-chapter-2-i-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4905","title":{"rendered":"CCC Chapter 2, I.52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By revealing himself, God wishes to make [men] capable of responding to Him, and of knowing Him, and of loving Him far beyond their own natural capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>God<\/em> makes capable&#8230;beyond our capacity. In Adam&#8217;s fall, we have all fallen into a deep pit, as it were, and cannot get out of it on our own. &#8216;&#8230;Who redeems your life from the pit.&#8217; Psalm 103:2.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever adjective is used to describe God&#8217;s gracious rescue, our <em>being made capable<\/em> is the very essence of our salvation in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By revealing himself, God wishes to make [men] capable of responding to Him, and of knowing Him, and of loving Him far beyond their own natural capacity.&#8221; God makes capable&#8230;beyond our capacity. In Adam&#8217;s fall, we have all fallen into a deep pit, as it were, and cannot get out of it on our own. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CCC Chapter 2, I.52&#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\/4905"}],"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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}