{"id":1661,"date":"2012-11-27T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2012-11-28T08:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:08:38","slug":"deuteronomy-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 4:2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is something in us that wants to be the \u201cquality control\u201d agent for God. We start off well, but in a desire for holiness, we have a tendency to add rules to what the Scripture says. Or in a desire for relevance, we try to cut out the parts of Scripture that seem foreign to our culture. But God\u2019s word doesn\u2019t need help; it has stood the test of time. To take the Scripture as it was intended helps us rise beyond the biases of our generation and exposes us to a perspective that is beyond time itself.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. There is something in us that wants to be the \u201cquality control\u201d agent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1661\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[37,57],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-testament","category-readings","tag-deuteronomy","tag-new-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}