{"id":7292,"date":"2023-03-02T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2023-03-02T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:18:58","slug":"our-pagan-past-since-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Our Pagan Past (Since the Fall)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For an eternity &#8211; before anything was made, <br>The Triune God existed, independent, <br>Self-sufficient, self-contained, and content. <br>He needed nothing &#8211; angels, people, matter. <br>He &#8211; this God &#8211; was in Himself, communal. <br>Sometime after making the angels, this God <br>(Father, Son and Spirit, don&#8217;t ya know!)<br>Made people in His image, giving them free will. <br>The &#8220;creature&#8221; made in His image, <br>With moral standing, eternality of soul and body, <br>Failed!  Transgressed, offended, violated justice, <br>And earned everlasting damnation, indeed! <br>He <em>let him fail<\/em> and then <em>restored him<\/em><br>By the profound means of <em>His own death<\/em>! <br>He is an awesome God, to say the least. <br>So we properly sing, &#8220;Ain&#8217;t nobody <br>Love like Jesus.\u00a0 Ain&#8217;t nobody love me this good! <br>And I know, I know, I know .\u00a0. . Nobody could.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A.m. on 2 March, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an eternity &#8211; before anything was made, The Triune God existed, independent, Self-sufficient, self-contained, and content. He needed nothing &#8211; angels, people, matter. He &#8211; this God &#8211; was in Himself, communal. Sometime after making the angels, this God (Father, Son and Spirit, don&#8217;t ya know!)Made people in His image, giving them free will. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23,53,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-position-papers","category-salvation","category-sanctity-of-human-beings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}