{"id":7686,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-cross-more-than-a-symbol\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","slug":"the-cross-more-than-a-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-cross-more-than-a-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross: More Than A Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reconciliation is a homely word for making up after a quarrel.  This is done by taking away the cause of the quarrel; unless this is done, there may be an uneasy truce -but there can be no real reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>In the hostility between God and sinners (Rom 5:10), the root cause, sin, was put away by the death of Christ, and thus the way was clear for reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>Much the same is the expression \u201cmaking peace\u201d (Eph. 2:15); indeed, so closely is Christ involved in the process that he can be said to be \u201cour peace\u201d (Eph. 2:14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconciliation is a homely word for making up after a quarrel. This is done by taking away the cause of the quarrel; unless this is done, there may be an uneasy truce -but there can be no real reconciliation. In the hostility between God and sinners (Rom 5:10), the root cause, sin, was put away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,92,91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686"}],"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=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}