{"id":396,"date":"2015-12-18T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-12-18T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T23:23:57","slug":"can-we-get-better-results-without-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/can-we-get-better-results-without-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we get better results without God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourteen generations from David to Jechoniah are the story of people who repeatedly reject the grace of God. Instead, they choose gods they think they can control to give them wealth and power.\u00a0 The gods they chose were gods of human sacrifice and ritual abuse of young women.\u00a0 These generations were not wavering between two peaceful ways of life.\u00a0 They were either waiting on the only true God, or they were serving false gods.\u00a0 The true God had freed them, provided for them, and promised them a better kingdom to come.\u00a0 The false gods demanded the sacrifice of their children, their integrity, and their freedom, in hopes of getting what they thought they wanted.\u00a0 Usually, people chose the false gods. . .<\/p>\n<p>To read this post click here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good-News-3-4-Without-God.pdf\">Good News 3 4 Without God<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/About-this-series-of-reflections1.pdf\">About this series of reflections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourteen generations from David to Jechoniah are the story of people who repeatedly reject the grace of God. Instead, they choose gods they think they can control to give them wealth and power.\u00a0 The gods they chose were gods of human sacrifice and ritual abuse of young women.\u00a0 These generations were not wavering between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[141,140,139],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections","tag-babylon","tag-idolatry","tag-sin","books-of-the-bible-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}