{"id":3435,"date":"2011-03-27T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:53:24","slug":"selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling what no one needs as if it mattered if they buy it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/open-letter-to-rob-bell.html\">Pyromaniacs: Open Letter to Rob Bell<\/a>, there is a thoughtful post addressed mostly to Rob Bell, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Wins-About-Heaven-Person\/dp\/006204964X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1301248179&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">recent book<\/a> seems to suggest some form of &#8220;universal salvation&#8221;.  The article is well worth reading, but this comment from a reader of that blog named &#8220;H&#8221; seems unusually pithy to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He &lt;Rob Bell&gt; makes his living from tithes and offerings by preaching things that don&#8217;t need to be heard to people that don&#8217;t need to hear them because they will ultimately be saved from sinfulness they really don&#8217;t possess by a Savior they didn&#8217;t even need when they were alive who died for no reason because he planned to save them regardless anyway, then writes a<br \/>\n book explaining it all to people that don&#8217;t even need to understand it because (again) they&#8217;re going to get saved anyway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By extension, this sort of comment applies to all those who a selling some kind of &#8220;social salvation in the here and now&#8221; and not the eternal salvation of God.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/azusapacificalumni.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Melody<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3435\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3435\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-3435\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Pyromaniacs: Open Letter to Rob Bell, there is a thoughtful post addressed mostly to Rob Bell, whose recent book seems to suggest some form of &#8220;universal salvation&#8221;. The article is well worth reading, but this comment from a reader of that blog named &#8220;H&#8221; seems unusually pithy to me. He &lt;Rob Bell&gt; makes his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3435\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3435\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-3435\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/selling-what-no-one-needs-as-if-it-mattered-if-they-buy-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fhbS-Tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}