{"id":13341,"date":"2023-12-14T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2023-12-07T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:48:06","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-14-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13341","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is useful from time to time to ask why it is that God bothered. Why didn\u2019t God simply say, \u2018Well, that didn\u2019t work\u2019 and start over. He could have\u2026 The reason, if we look into our teaching and if we look into what God reveals about Himself, the reason is because He made the human being in His image and likeness. He could not but love that image and likeness so much that he had to fix it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(Archbishop Melchisedek in \u2018Life Transfigured\u2019 journal,\u00a0 2022)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13342\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image10-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image10-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Image10.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is useful from time to time to ask why it is that God bothered. Why didn\u2019t God simply say, \u2018Well, that didn\u2019t work\u2019 and start over. He could have\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13343,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions\/13343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}