{"id":2845,"date":"2014-04-26T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2014-04-26T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T10:54:12","slug":"the-atonement-does-not-change-the-nature-and-character-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"The atonement does not change the nature and character of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The atonement<\/strong> does not change the nature and  character of God, but rather, the atonement honours and magnifies the  character of God. The death of Christ is not the cause of God\u2019s love,  but the result of it. God is not merciful because Christ died. Christ  died because God is merciful. In order that every attribute might be  expressed, glorified, and honored, God gave His Son to be the Savior of  His chosen people! Thank God! There is an atonement before the Lord! \u2013  Pastor Henry Mahan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atonement does not change the nature and character of God, but rather, the atonement honours and magnifies the character of God. The death of Christ is not the cause of God\u2019s love, but the result of it. God is not merciful because Christ died. Christ died because God is merciful. In order that every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-atonement","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}