{"id":134,"date":"2013-05-19T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/forgiveness-good-news-bad-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:06:55","slug":"forgiveness-good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/forgiveness-good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness = Good News\/Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it will be a relief to many people to understand that God doesn\u2019t ask them to forgive those who have abused them. It\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it\u2019s bad news to the dispensers of religious tradition who think they can control people by keeping them under a guilt trip telling them that about \u201dforgiveness as an act of Christlike obedience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it will be a relief to many people to understand that God doesn\u2019t ask them to forgive those who have abused them. It\u2019s good news. Of course it\u2019s bad news to the dispensers of religious tradition who think they can control people by keeping them under a guilt trip telling them that about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}