{"id":29255,"date":"2014-02-21T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=29255"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:43:56","slug":"weve-all-been-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/weve-all-been-set-up\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve All Been Set Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29256\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/moses-brass-serpent-39479-mobile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29256 \" alt=\"You have to turn and look.\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/moses-brass-serpent-39479-mobile-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/moses-brass-serpent-39479-mobile-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/moses-brass-serpent-39479-mobile.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You have to turn and look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been set up for failure.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/pgp\/abr\/3.25?lang=eng#24\" target=\"_blank\">plan<\/a>: go to Earth and obey the commandments. \u00a0How likely is that to turn out well? \u00a0Add in that part with Adam, Eve, and the fruit and I think it is pretty clear that this was a set up to force us to&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/pgp\/moses\/5.10?lang=eng#9\" target=\"_blank\">turn to God<\/a>. \u00a0Failure makes us humble. \u00a0Repentance changes our hearts. \u00a0Which is the goal: a broken heart and a contrite spirit.<\/p>\n<p>So when someone complains about a standard being too high or that we are setting people up for failure by expecting things like chastity, honesty, modesty, tithing or whatever else. \u00a0Well, they may be right. \u00a0Failure, after all, was part of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>(this post owes debts to, but no has no claims on, Nathaniel&#8217;s post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com\/2014\/02\/20\/rape-culture-in-the-ensign\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and the fireside speaker in my ward last week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all been set up for failure. Consider the\u00a0plan: go to Earth and obey the commandments. \u00a0How likely is that to turn out well? \u00a0Add in that part with Adam, Eve, and the fruit and I think it is pretty clear that this was a set up to force us to&#8230;\u00a0turn to God. \u00a0Failure makes us humble. \u00a0Repentance changes our hearts. \u00a0Which is the goal: a broken heart and a contrite spirit. So when someone complains about a standard being too high or that we are setting people up for failure by expecting things like chastity, honesty, modesty, tithing or whatever else. \u00a0Well, they may be right. \u00a0Failure, after all, was part of the plan. (this post owes debts to, but no has no claims on, Nathaniel&#8217;s post\u00a0here\u00a0and the fireside speaker in my ward last week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":29256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/moses-brass-serpent-39479-mobile.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29255","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29263,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29255\/revisions\/29263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}