{"id":2982,"date":"2013-02-04T22:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2013-02-04T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:01:28","slug":"what-happens-to-the-fathers-before-christ-john-calvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"What happens to the Fathers before Christ - John Calvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For believers before Christ's incarnation, they \"<em><strong>enjoy a blessed rest, until redemption be finished<\/strong><\/em>\" (The day of resurrection). - Calvin's commentary on John 14:2.<\/p>\n<p>To stand on this point, Calvin commentated Luke 23:43 <em><strong>We ought not to enter into curious and subtle arguments about the place of paradise<\/strong><\/em>, as long as believers trust that they are the partakers of that life. For now, just imagine a blessed and joyful rest.<\/p>\n<p>There is a case to ponder from this: That perhaps the keyword for the solution is \"beyond time\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For believers before Christ's incarnation, they \"enjoy a blessed rest, until redemption be finished\" (The day of resurrection). - Calvin's commentary on John 14:2. To stand on this point, Calvin commentated Luke 23:43 We ought not to enter into curious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2982\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}