{"id":4457,"date":"2017-09-02T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2017-09-02T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T13:50:28","slug":"not-acceptable-per-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"Not acceptable per se"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble&#8230;.May He remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Psalm 20:1, 3<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament, burnt sacrifices were offered to graphically express one&#8217;s total commitment to the LORD God of Israel. Here a prayer is offered that the burnt sacrifice would be acceptable to the LORD. \u00a0Not acceptable <em>per se<\/em>, but acceptable because it was a true expression of one&#8217;s total allegiance, or even of one&#8217;s desire to be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble&#8230;.May He remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Psalm 20:1, 3 In the Old Testament, burnt sacrifices were offered to graphically express one&#8217;s total commitment to the LORD God of Israel. Here a prayer is offered that the burnt sacrifice would be acceptable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not acceptable per se&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457"}],"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=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}