{"id":1594,"date":"2012-08-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2012-08-10T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:00:00","slug":"why-christianity-is-true-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Why Christianity is True 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A man cannot look upon the love of God and of Christ in the gospel, but it will change him to be like God and Christ. ~Richard Sibbes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because of sin and because Jesus <em>is the payment<\/em> for sin (to all those who believe in Him), Jesus demands our devotion and love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No other religion provides this kind of grace and mercy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only God in Jesus provides pure grace and mercy by obtaining salvation <em>for<\/em> us<\/li>\n<li>Only God in Christ makes us pure<\/li>\n<li>Only God in Jesus cleanses us from <em>all<\/em> sin, guilt and wrong doing<\/li>\n<li>Only God in Jesus forgives us <em>completely<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Only God in Christ can accept us into His family (as sons), fully and lovingly accepted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <em>best<\/em> all other religions can do is give you advice on obtaining God&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>And it is sin that prevents us from completely following the advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only Christianity provides <em>Good News<\/em> that we have God&#8217;s favor in Jesus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesus obtained God&#8217;s favor <em>for us<\/em> and <em>in our place<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And this is why Christianity is True. Jesus&#8217; resurrection proves He&#8217;s fulfilled everything and God is pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man cannot look upon the love of God and of Christ in the gospel, but it will change him to be like God and Christ. ~Richard Sibbes Because of sin and because Jesus is the payment for sin (to all those who believe in Him), Jesus demands our devotion and love. No other religion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-pI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}