{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-16T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-01-16T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:15:06","slug":"why-did-he-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Why did He do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement&#8230; he did this to demonstrate his justice.&#8221;\u00a0 Romans 3:25<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We usually associate the sacrifice of Christ on the cross with God&#8217;s love.\u00a0 &#8220;For God so loved the world&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 But here the apostle Paul clearly says that there was something else involved &#8211; God&#8217;s justice.\u00a0 God&#8217;s love and mercy, his holiness and justice, are met at the cross.\u00a0 That is the gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement&#8230; he did this to demonstrate his justice.&#8221;\u00a0 Romans 3:25 We usually associate the sacrifice of Christ on the cross with God&#8217;s love.\u00a0 &#8220;For God so loved the world&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 But here the apostle Paul clearly says that there was something else involved &#8211; God&#8217;s justice.\u00a0 God&#8217;s love and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why did He do it?&#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\/61"}],"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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}