{"id":223,"date":"2010-12-24T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=223"},"modified":"2010-12-25T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T16:37:28","slug":"not-man-made-exodus-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Not man-made (Exodus 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using a tool to shape the stones of the altar symbolizes man&#8217;s attempt to to be right with God by his own efforts. It is the essence of religion. But God doesn&#8217;t want it. Nothing artificial. Salvation is not man-made.<\/p>\n<p>God will do the shaping. He will fit us for his work. There is no way we can fit ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>How fitting the Christmas hymn now playing in the background: &#8220;&#8230;and fit us for heaven to live with Thee there&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.&#8221; Using a tool to shape the stones of the altar symbolizes man&#8217;s attempt to to be right with God by his own efforts. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not man-made (Exodus 20)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}