{"id":2369,"date":"2005-06-21T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2005-06-21T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:47:55","slug":"guaranteed-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/guaranteed-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guaranteed Salvation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just forwarded me this one, a little discussion (rhyming, no less) about the intersection of law practice and exaltation.  Some of the theology may be a bit speculative, but the last line is quite accurate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night as I lay sleeping I died or so it seemed.<br \/>\nThen I went up to heaven, but only in my dream.<br \/>\nUp there St. Peter met me standing at the pearly gate.<br \/>\nHe said &#8220;I must check your record. Please stand here and wait&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;I see that you drank alcohol and smoked a smoke or two.<br \/>\nFact is, that you&#8217;ve done everything a good man should never do.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t have folks like you up here! Your life was full of sin.&#8221;<br \/>\nThen he read the last of my record. He took my hand and said &#8220;Come in&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe led me up to the boss and said &#8220;Take him in and treat him well.<br \/>\nHe used to work in a law firm.  He&#8217;s done his time in hell.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just forwarded me this one, a little discussion (rhyming, no less) about the intersection of law practice and exaltation. Some of the theology may be a bit speculative, but the last line is quite accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}