{"id":6211,"date":"2019-03-10T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2019-03-10T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:24:29","slug":"are-you-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/archives\/6211\/are-you-saved","title":{"rendered":"Are You Saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times I have been approached by a person asking: \u201cAre you saved?\u201d I was raised in evangelical religion so I knew what they were asking. My common answer is yes. I try not to get involved in religious discourse.<\/p>\n<p>But one day a young girl asked me that question. Then she told me she wasn\u2019t worthy of God\u2019s love until she accepted Jesus as her Savior. He had died for her sins. Accepting that belief made her worthy of God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered my early struggles between religion and logic. I could not reconcile the differences and left the church. 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