{"id":9572,"date":"2025-03-12T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","slug":"failed-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9572","title":{"rendered":"FAILED EXPERIMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the earth and all its inhabitants God&#8217;s great failed experiment?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are among those who believe that the essence of the gospel is\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 Adam and Eve sinned and<\/li>\n\n\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 Therefore, YOU\u00a0are a sinner, too, and<\/li>\n\n\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 You need to repent and believe in Jesus\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 So that God will impute His righteousness to you and dismiss all your sins<\/li>\n\n\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 So that when you die, He can whisk you away to your forever home in Heaven while the earth is wiped out of existence &#8230;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then what do you make of God&#8217;s original plan &#8211; the one where He creates a material existence in which He would share space with material\/spiritual beings fashioned in His image?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did God&#8217;s wondrous work &#8211; so celebrated in Genesis chapter 1 &#8211; turn out to be the mother of all failed experiments?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess it just didn&#8217;t work out the way God had hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the earth and all its inhabitants God&#8217;s great failed experiment? If you are among those who believe that the essence of the gospel is\u00a0 Then what do you make of God&#8217;s original plan &#8211; the one where He creates a material existence in which He would share space with material\/spiritual beings fashioned in His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}