{"id":3968,"date":"2020-04-20T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2020-04-20T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:01:41","slug":"the-coronavirus-and-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2020\/the-coronavirus-and-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coronavirus and the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Father,<\/p>\n

Covid-19 and the cross of Christ — both came upon the planet for the same root reason. <\/p>\n

The viral affliction and the brutal Crucifixion — both happened because of Adam and Eve’s rebellion.<\/p>\n

Sickness and death became our lot because of sin.<\/p>\n

Christ’s voluntary humiliation and death came as God’s solution to man’s sin — our sin, your sin, my sin.<\/p>\n

The sacrifice of God’s own Son makes it possible for me to perceive His love for me, and to avail myself of His redemption for me.<\/p>\n

Well, when you hear and read about the coronavirus, remember the Cross and the Christ sacrificed thereon. For you.<\/p>\n

(I first put this “out there” on April 10, 2020: on my Facebook writer page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something they have in common: foundational cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Coronavirus and the Cross","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[1079,1081,696,880],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-history","tag-life-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-120","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}