{"id":100,"date":"2009-10-01T02:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-10-01T02:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:01:26","slug":"why-was-sodom-punished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Why was Sodom punished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/ceruleansanctum.com\/2009\/06\/the-real-sins-of-sodom.html\">post by Dan Edelen<\/a> yesterday, and want to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>How quick we are to presume we know the whole story! I never noticed the passage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ezekiel+16\">Ezekiel<\/a> before, either!<\/p>\n<p>How many of the things in that list &#8211; arrogance, gluttony, apathy, uncaringness\/unlovingness, haughtiness &#8211; are you and I guilty of?<\/p>\n<p>Again how true is what Jesus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+13\">says<\/a> to his disciples: &#8220;Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them &#8211; do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no one sin that is any worse than another &#8211; we&#8217;ve all sinned and deserve death and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome is it that God provided a way of escape through his Son!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this post by Dan Edelen yesterday, and want to share it with you. How quick we are to presume we know the whole story! I never noticed the passage in Ezekiel before, either! How many of the things in that list &#8211; arrogance, gluttony, apathy, uncaringness\/unlovingness, haughtiness &#8211; are you and I &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why was Sodom punished?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[883],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}