{"id":1471,"date":"2025-11-12T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:32:10","slug":"the-mercy-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/11\/12\/the-mercy-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercy of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Jews still exist. God did not destroy them when they rejected His Only Son. He could have and would have been within His rights to do so. After all, He destroyed Sodom for a much less serious crime. The mercy of God is to give them time to repent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"607\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 607w, https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jews still exist. God did not destroy them when they rejected His Only Son. He could have and would have been within His rights to do so. After all, He destroyed Sodom for a much less serious crime. The mercy of God is to give them time to repent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}