{"id":297,"date":"2022-01-02T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2022-01-02T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T22:05:25","slug":"whoops-said-the-almighty-saul-rejected-me-on-the-road-to-damascus-what-do-i-do-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whoops&#8221; Said the Almighty. &#8220;Saul Rejected Me On the Road to Damascus. What Do I Do Now?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere Between the Damascus Road and Heaven \u2013 \u201cSaul, Saul, why are you persecuting me.\u201d Jesus asked Saul, as Saul fell off his horse with an unceremonious thud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saul had been traveling down the Damascus Road to go persecute more Christians. At least that had been his plan, until a blinding light appeared from Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho are you lord?\u201d Saul asked, rubbing his backside, which hurt from the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am Jesus the one you are persecuting.\u201d Jesus replied. \u201cBut get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you must do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d Saul replied. \u201cI will not go into the city, and I will not follow you. I have free will, so I am free to reject you.\u201d Saul knew he spoke the truth the minute the blinding light disappeared, and Jesus returned to Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up above Damascus Road, Jesus was reconsidering his eternal plan. \u201cWhoops!\u201d Said the Almighty. \u201cSaul was right, he is free to reject me, now all my carefully laid plans from eternity past will not be fulfilled. What do I do now?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Somewhere Between the Damascus Road and Heaven \u2013 \u201cSaul, Saul, why are you persecuting me.\u201d Jesus asked Saul, as Saul fell off his horse with an unceremonious thud. Saul had been traveling down the Damascus Road to go persecute more Christians. At least that had been his plan, until a blinding light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}