{"id":8079,"date":"2023-12-01T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2023-12-01T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:28:59","slug":"the-wretched-ones-do-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8079","title":{"rendered":"The Wretched One&#8217;s &#8220;Do-over&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t like slavery?&#8221; said the slavers <br>To the abolitionists.\u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t have one!&#8221;<br>And so say abortionists to the pro-lifers:<br>&#8220;Don&#8217;t like abortion?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have one!&#8221;<br>&#8216;Tis the retort of\u00a0flippant perverts who justify<br>The lie that there is no &#8220;image of God&#8221;<br>In the baby: a human being in the womb.<br>Indeed, the fallen nature of man has not changed;<br>It is in need of serious repair &#8211; even a full remake!<br>And such a &#8220;do-over&#8221; occurs in Repentance and Baptism.<br>There is no way to escape the damnation due you,<br>But to confess yourself a miserable, wretched sinner.<br>Got to start over as a brand new Jesus-saved beginner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Dec., 2023 at 0855<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t like slavery?&#8221; said the slavers To the abolitionists.\u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t have one!&#8221;And so say abortionists to the pro-lifers:&#8220;Don&#8217;t like abortion?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have one!&#8221;&#8216;Tis the retort of\u00a0flippant perverts who justifyThe lie that there is no &#8220;image of God&#8221;In the baby: a human being in the womb.Indeed, the fallen nature of man has not changed;It is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,52,23,53,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecclesiastical-matters","category-poetry","category-position-papers","category-salvation","category-sanctity-of-human-beings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}