{"id":113,"date":"2005-01-29T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/making-it-to-home\/"},"modified":"2005-01-29T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T04:35:39","slug":"making-it-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/making-it-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it to home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/practical-universalism\/\">Practical universalism<\/a> isn&#8217;t very practical. It doesn&#8217;t help people become godly, anymore than hiring blind umpires makes baseball more exciting.  The umpire can&#8217;t grade on a curve. He has to decide if the runner arrived before the ball, or the ball before the runner. But if the runner never arrives, he doesn&#8217;t have to decide anything. The answer is obvious. It doesn&#8217;t matter how fast a baseball player ran from second to third, it doesn&#8217;t matter how sincerely. If he doesn&#8217;t make it to home plate, he doesn&#8217;t score. It doesn&#8217;t count. If you never become the kind of person who wants to spend eternity praising God, it doesn&#8217;t matter how close you got to it.  You won&#8217;t be forced to spend eternity praising God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical universalism isn&#8217;t very practical. It doesn&#8217;t help people become godly, anymore than hiring blind umpires makes baseball more exciting. The umpire can&#8217;t grade on a curve. He has to decide if the runner arrived before the ball, or the ball before the runner. But if the runner never arrives, he doesn&#8217;t have to decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}