{"id":81470,"date":"2024-08-16T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=81470"},"modified":"2024-08-16T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:09:16","slug":"gods-forgiveness-through-christs-cross-a-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=81470","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Forgiveness through Christ\u2019s Cross: A Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;I believe in the forgiveness of sins.&rdquo; That simple sentence from the ancient Apostles&rsquo; Creed has summarized the faith of millions of Christians for nearly two millennia. &ldquo;I believe in the forgiveness of sins.&rdquo; Why? On what basis can sinners like me and you&mdash;people who frequently fail to fully obey God&mdash;ever hope to have our many sins forgiven? We find the answer in the cross of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2024\/08\/16\/gods-forgiveness-through-christs-cross-a-meditation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springboarding from a sentence from the Apostles\u2019 Creed, this article reflects on God\u2019s forgiveness found in Jesus Christ through His sacrificial death on the cross. I survey various Bible passages, explain the doctrine of Christ\u2019s substitutionary atonement, and urge Christians to believe afresh God\u2019s promises Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":81472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[6025,1251,2134,65,936,708],"class_list":["post-81470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-apostles-creed","tag-christ","tag-cross","tag-forgiveness","tag-people-in-need-of-care","tag-people-who-offer-care","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-9.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81473,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81470\/revisions\/81473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}