{"id":1212,"date":"2010-09-24T04:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-09-24T04:21:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:21:30","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1212\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was going to put this as my FB status, but I am not bold enough to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Why do we love God? Why does anyone love a god? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">(The Bible says, &#8220;Because He first loved us.&#8221;) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I fell in love with God because He had mercy on me and He drew me to Himself. So, does that mean that there are some who do not love God, because God doesn&#8217;t love them? I thought that God loves all mankind, and desires for everyone to repent and come to Him. But perhaps that is not so. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Brad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I think you are asking the question that launches men out into the fathomless waters of predestination vs. freewill. The best we can do with that is to leave it to God &#8212; and be very thankful that He called us out of darkness into the light of His Son.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to put this as my FB status, but I am not bold enough to. Why do we love God? Why does anyone love a god? (The Bible says, &#8220;Because He first loved us.&#8221;) I fell in love with God because He had mercy on me and He drew me to Himself. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}