{"id":70,"date":"2014-12-19T23:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-12-22T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:11:11","slug":"why-does-sin-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Why does sin exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does sin exist?\u00a0 God\u00a0created all things, and nothing was created without Him.\u00a0 So, why does sin exist?\u00a0 Some Christians say that sin is a byproduct of God giving us free will.\u00a0 Why did He give us free will?\u00a0 The Christian response &#8211; God gave us free will so that we would freely choose to love Him.\u00a0 My response to this &#8211; why couldn&#8217;t God give us free will, so that we could freely choose to love Him, without allowing sin to exist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does sin exist?\u00a0 God\u00a0created all things, and nothing was created without Him.\u00a0 So, why does sin exist?\u00a0 Some Christians say that sin is a byproduct of God giving us free will.\u00a0 Why did He give us free will?\u00a0 The Christian response &#8211; God gave us free will so that we would freely choose to&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=70\">Read more <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":[],"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}