{"id":1100,"date":"2010-10-21T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T23:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2010-10-21T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T23:07:56","slug":"if-you-repent%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"If you repent\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cGod, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were  dead in sin\u2026.Therefore be assured that <strong>you who repent <\/strong>have been  forgiven\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thus announced the pastor in his absolution at the Sunday  morning worship service.<\/p>\n<p>How dead were we? Mostly dead?\u00a0 Not quite?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another gospel-plus distortion of the gospel: The  gospel + repentance &#8212;- a prescription for spiritual pride or spiritual  despair.<\/p>\n<p>How then to make sense of repentance? Read <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?page_id=251\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were dead in sin\u2026.Therefore be assured that you who repent have been forgiven\u2026.\u201d Thus announced the pastor in his absolution at the Sunday morning worship service. How dead were we? Mostly dead?\u00a0 Not quite? It\u2019s another gospel-plus distortion of the gospel: The gospel + [&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-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}