{"id":1028,"date":"2010-08-24T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2010-08-25T07:16:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:16:42","slug":"on-this-day-1600-years-ago-rome-fell1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, 1600 Years Ago, Rome Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On This Day, 1600 Years Ago, <\/strong><strong>Rome<\/strong><strong> Fell<a href=\"#_ftn1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, as a consequence, Augustine wrote <em>The City of God<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>Was the fall of Rome a sign of the end?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>Were the Christians at fault because they had rejected the religion of the City of Man,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>symbolized by Rome?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>What was God doing, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we have no abiding city\u201d (Hebrews 13:14 KJV).<\/p>\n<p>In our time,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>again a time of chaos and collapse,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>perhaps again to be followed by Dark Ages,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>or even The End in 2012<br \/>\nthat the Lord is Lord both of chaos and cosmos,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"1\" \/>even of Western civilization,<br \/>\nmakes all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>For His city is the City of God, which He has prepared (Philippians 3:20).<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> On August 24, 410, for the first time in 800 years Rome fell, to an army of the Visigoths (Northern Europeans), led by Alaric, an Arian Christian general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, 1600 Years Ago, Rome Fell[1] And, as a consequence, Augustine wrote The City of God. Was the fall of Rome a sign of the end? Were the Christians at fault because they had rejected the religion of the City of Man, symbolized by Rome? What was God doing, anyway? \u201cHere we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}