{"id":8352,"date":"2024-02-28T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:12:57","slug":"all-hes-ever-been-is-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8352","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All He&#8217;s Ever Been Is kind&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which god are you serving?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever read Job?\u00a0 (Wasn&#8217;t treated too <em>kindly<\/em> by God.\u00a0 Remember when He allowed the devil to &#8220;have his way&#8221; with that <em>righteous<\/em> man?\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t pretty &#8211; or <em>kind<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were the Father and the Spirit &#8220;kind&#8221; to Jesus when they poured out the sins of the world upon Him &#8211; for the sake of the world &#8211; so that He suffered like no other human being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nah!\u00a0 It is really a kind of stupid song which overlooks the real attributes of God, most notably and summarily of which is <em>holiness<\/em>!!!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is <em>separate<\/em> from sin, corruption, lies, and death (couldn&#8217;t hold Him when He gave Himself over Death to, ironically, <em>conquer<\/em> death!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kind&#8221; doesn&#8217;t rank among his attributes.\u00a0 He is <em>holy<\/em>, <em>righteous<\/em>, <em>just<\/em>, and <em>merciful<\/em>.\u00a0 He is love, but love isn&#8217;t always kind.  It can be rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 Feb., 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which god are you serving? Ever read Job?\u00a0 (Wasn&#8217;t treated too kindly by God.\u00a0 Remember when He allowed the devil to &#8220;have his way&#8221; with that righteous man?\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t pretty &#8211; or kind.) Were the Father and the Spirit &#8220;kind&#8221; to Jesus when they poured out the sins of the world upon Him &#8211; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352"}],"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=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}