{"id":4963,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/create-him-not\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:01","slug":"create-him-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/create-him-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Him Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The love of God is indescribable but a old Jewish legend does a pretty good job.  It describes what happened when God created man.  The legend says God took into counsel the Angels that stood about his throne.<\/p>\n<p>The Angel of Justice said; &#8216;Create him not &#8230; for if you do he will commit all kinds of wickedness against his fellow man; he will be hard and cruel and dishonest and unrighteous.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Angel of Truth said, &#8216;Create him not &#8230; for he will be false and deceitful to his brother and even to Thee.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Angel of Holiness stood and said; &#8216;Create him not &#8230; he will follow that which is impure in your sight, and dishonor you to your face.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Then stepped forward the Angel of Mercy, God&#8217;s most beloved angel, and said; &#8216;Create him, our Heavenly Father, for when he sins and turns from the path of right and truth and holiness I will take him tenderly by the hand, and speak loving words to him, and then lead him back to you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>_________________<\/p>\n<p>Brett Blair, eSermons.com, September 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The love of God is indescribable but a old Jewish legend does a pretty good job. It describes what happened when God created man. The legend says God took into counsel the Angels that stood about his throne. The Angel of Justice said; &#8216;Create him not &#8230; for if you do he will commit all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3074,985,3168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}