{"id":254,"date":"2001-11-08T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2001-11-09T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=254"},"modified":"2001-11-08T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2001-11-09T00:04:08","slug":"two-paths-to-the-same-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/11\/08\/two-paths-to-the-same-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"two paths to the same destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timmorgan.info\">Tim<\/a> gives his viewpoint on goodness and faith.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Okay, but really that&#8217;s not even the point. The point in accepting His grace and having a relationship with Him is to be cleansed of sin, so not to be cut off from God for eternity.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I&#8217;m going to be around for eternity, and God is going to cut me off from him for 99.99999&#8230;% of eternity based on my entirely humane and thoughtful paltry few years on this planet simply because I failed to forge a relationship with him and be understanding of his needs when he would only ever communicate with me indirectly through prophets or symbolically through deeds, I would think he&#8217;s not a very forgiving or understanding type of guy, and further that he was somewhat spiteful.  I myself have salvaged very good friendships out of worse beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m gonna carry on being a good guy as usual and when I&#8217;m gone, if there&#8217;s an afterlife, I&#8217;ll deal with it.  If not, I won&#8217;t have to.  If I have to suffer for eternity without appeal, review or parole, I&#8217;ll be pretty disappointed in the afterlife justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim gives his viewpoint on goodness and faith. Okay, but really that&#8217;s not even the point. The point in accepting His grace and having a relationship with Him is to be cleansed of sin, so not to be cut off from God for eternity. If I&#8217;m going to be around for eternity, and God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}