{"id":6179,"date":"2022-07-25T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T23:06:40","slug":"justice-and-mercy-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6179","title":{"rendered":"Justice and Mercy at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Love existed eternally in the past. <br>Love &#8211; the Father, Son, and Spirit &#8211; <br>Needed nothing else to love.  <br>He is love itself and ruled all above <br>And below and everywhere to know, <br>And there was no where one might go <br>To escape His gaze or presence. <br>This One made the world and man <br>And for His creation had a plan <br>To display something about Himself, <br>His love for His world and humanity. <br>Man was lost and doomed forevermore <br>And justice could not save the race; <br>Nothing else would do but a coup. <br>And so He came for me and you <br>And did just what He had\u00a0 to do. <br>The price was high and none could pay <br>Leaving only one unfathomable way. <br>The death of the Creator of all the world; <br>On this One must wrath be unfurled. <br>And so it was, done for all; <br>The final solution for the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 July, 2022 at 1857<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love existed eternally in the past. Love &#8211; the Father, Son, and Spirit &#8211; Needed nothing else to love. He is love itself and ruled all above And below and everywhere to know, And there was no where one might go To escape His gaze or presence. This One made the world and man And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,57,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179"}],"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=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}