{"id":3279,"date":"2020-03-06T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:22:08","slug":"the-future-contemplated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"The Future Contemplated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>6 March, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a perfect world God&#8217;s creatures would be able to focus their praise upon the One who made them gloriously in His image.\u00a0\u00a0 But in a fallen world, His followers are necessarily engaged in and distracted by a two-fold polemic: 1) a continual militantly focused service of the One True God, and 2) a defense against His detractors bolstered by a denunciation of the various false gods which the demons incessantly advance against the Holy One. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Providentially, this arrangement\nmakes for dynamic interplay highlighting what is right by contrasting it with\nwhat is wrong.&nbsp; The progression of this\nphenomenon brings clarity to truth and justice as time marches on.&nbsp; Let every path be explored and found\nwanting.&nbsp; And may God&#8217;s people, by faith,\nstick to the path and leave the experimental social and political exploration\nto the hapless and to fools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A time will come &#8211; a population\ncrisis &#8211; when abortion will be anathematized.&nbsp;\nAnti-aborts of the past will be international heroes, revered as the\nabolitionists are now in our post-civil-rights times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 March, 2020 In a perfect world God&#8217;s creatures would be able to focus their praise upon the One who made them gloriously in His image.\u00a0\u00a0 But in a fallen world, His followers are necessarily engaged in and distracted by a two-fold polemic: 1) a continual militantly focused service of the One True God, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,30,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}