{"id":615,"date":"2011-04-24T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2011-04-24T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:19:19","slug":"jesus-christ-our-silver-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Christ &#8230; our silver bullet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Jesus Christ our silver bullet?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Idiomatic Usage <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_bullet\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_bullet<\/a><br \/>\nThe term has been adopted into a general metaphor, where &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; refers to any straightforward solution perceived to have extreme effectiveness. The phrase typically appears with an expectation that some new technological development or practice will easily cure a major prevailing problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does coming to Christ in belief and receiving forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life solve all of our problems?<\/p>\n<p>Yes and no.<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Christ &#8220;fixes&#8221; what matters most and that is our relationship with God, our Creator and Redeemer.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, God doesn&#8217;t offer to fix everything in our lives.\u00a0 But he does offer the gift of life through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.\u00a0 This is God&#8217;s plan.\u00a0 This is how God decided to bring &#8220;help&#8221; to humanity.\u00a0 So we may want to at least for a moment stop and take a breath before discounting God&#8217;s idea for how he can most come alongside us as Savior and involve himself in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Salvation through no other way than Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ephesians 1:7 (ESV) In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Jesus Christ our silver bullet? Idiomatic Usage http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silver_bullet The term has been adopted into a general metaphor, where &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; refers to any straightforward solution perceived to have extreme effectiveness. The phrase typically appears with an expectation that some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=615\">Continue reading <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":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-9V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}