{"id":108,"date":"2009-12-17T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:32:18","slug":"the-sovereignty-of-god-vs-the-free-will-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"The Sovereignty of God vs. the Free Will of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was in Southern California on a trip to Australia.  While scanning through the radio, on my way back to the airport, I picked up a secular station.  The host was talking about God.  His ignorance about the subject astounded me.  I was tempted to miss my flight just so I could pull over and call in.  It did make me realize that there are giant misconceptions about who God is and how He operates even among sincere Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest misconceptions seem to be over <strong>what is<\/strong> and <strong>what<\/strong> <strong>is not<\/strong> the <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Will of God<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong> Historically there have been two points of view on the issue of God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was in Southern California on a trip to Australia. While scanning through the radio, on my way back to the airport, I picked up a secular station. The host was talking about God. His ignorance about the subject astounded me. I was tempted to miss my flight just so I could pull over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[23,20,22,19,21],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","tag-free-will","tag-free-will-of-man","tag-gods-will","tag-sovereignty-of-god","tag-will-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}