{"id":542,"date":"2009-04-12T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:04:00","slug":"the-road-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Feast of the Resurrection of the Body (Happy Easter) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is a synopsis of a conversation I had a few years ago about the steps in salvation &#8211; I ordered it thus:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Redemption: because, well . . . none of this discussion would be happening (in a Christian context) if it wasn&#8217;t for the redemptive work of Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Conversion: because once we encounter the living God we are convicted of our sinfulness and moved to change our lives and hearts<\/li>\n<li>Forgiveness: because once we experience the loving embrace of our Creator we are seduced into giving and receiving forgiveness<\/li>\n<li>Salvation: once we give and accept forgiveness we start on the road to salvation<\/li>\n<li>Perfection: once we live in the new heaven and new earth we will live in the paradise conceived in the mind of God before the creation of the world; we will live in a perfected place as perfected people (saints)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Blessings &amp; Peace,<br \/>Hugo<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Feast of the Resurrection of the Body (Happy Easter) \ud83d\ude42 This is a synopsis of a conversation I had<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Road to Heaven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}