{"id":620,"date":"2023-08-21T01:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=620"},"modified":"2023-08-21T01:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:12:29","slug":"atonement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Atonement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We learn of Jesus being spoken of in the Book of Hebrews as a high priest. &#8220;Hebrews 14:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are\u2014yet he did not sin.&#8221; What does that mean? The high priest for the Jews would each year sacrifice\u00a0animals. However, when Jesus came His atonement on the cross replaced the needs\u00a0of animal sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0Hebrews 10:4 tells us, &#8220;It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.&#8221;. The Good News of the Gospel is that if we believe in Jesus and receive Him as Lord, God, and Savior we will go to Heaven when we die. Praise God for bridging the gap and making Heaven a reality through faith and Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn of Jesus being spoken of in the Book of Hebrews as a high priest. &#8220;Hebrews 14:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are\u2014yet he did not sin.&#8221; What does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}