{"id":2803,"date":"2020-01-12T20:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T20:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2020-01-19T04:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T04:57:01","slug":"conditions-for-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"Conditions for Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If there were no conditions for forgiveness, then salvation would be universal. Everyone would be saved regardless of their status as a believer or unbeliever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>However, there are biblical conditions for forgiveness.\u00a0 <em>The\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>biblical conditions for forgiveness are repentance <\/em>(changing one&#8217;s mind)<em> and confession of sin* <\/em>(agreeing with God against ourselves)<em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>Therefore, universal salvation\u00a0(everyone is going to heaven) is a false teaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>*Vine&#8217;s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words Thomas Nelson, Inc., Copyright 1984, 1996.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there were no conditions for forgiveness, then salvation would be universal. Everyone would be saved regardless of their status as a believer or unbeliever. However, there are biblical conditions for forgiveness.\u00a0 The\u00a0biblical conditions for forgiveness are repentance (changing one&#8217;s mind) and confession of sin* (agreeing with God against ourselves).\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, universal salvation\u00a0(everyone is going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conditions for Forgiveness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}