{"id":567,"date":"2011-01-18T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T06:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/?p=567"},"modified":"2011-01-18T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T06:33:38","slug":"i-did-not-ask-to-be-created-so-why-should-i-owe-god-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/i-did-not-ask-to-be-created-so-why-should-i-owe-god-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"I did not ask to be created, so why should I owe God anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question does not really make sense. Since you had no consciousness  before you were born, you could not make any choices. You did not ask  because you could not ask.<\/p>\n<p>It is better to act in the real world because you are in it. Now  is the time to make the best decisions you can with what you have. You  did not ask to be born into a world of gravity, but you are still  careful about stepping off the roof of tall buildings.<\/p>\n<p>You probably did not ask to make the amount of money you earn per  year, but you can change that by educating yourself for a higher-paying  job or by making other decisions. You can likewise make a good decision  for eternity by finding out more about the God of the Bible and coming  to terms with what you learn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Do You Think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a. People in the poorer third world countries did not ask  to be born there. Do you think they are wondering if they owe anyone for  that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question does not really make sense. Since you had no consciousness before you were born, you could not make any choices. You did not ask because you could not ask. It is better to act in the real world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/i-did-not-ask-to-be-created-so-why-should-i-owe-god-anything\/\">Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/doubtbusters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}