{"id":8442,"date":"2018-12-26T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T01:55:47","slug":"the-inadequacy-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8442","title":{"rendered":"The Inadequacy of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the Thursday Bible Study about two weeks ago, we pondered upon the purpose of the law as we were studying Psalm 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made reference to the fact that somewhere in Hebrews it is said that the law is inadequate, because it only reveals our sinfulness, like an X-Ray, recalling Pak Tong's lesson. The pastor did not connect and I forgot where in Hebrews it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I can reflect and search, it is in Hebrews 7. Particularly verses 12, 18, 19, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, in Psalm 1, we are talking about more than just reciting and not breaking God's law, the meditation is relationship deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Thursday Bible Study about two weeks ago, we pondered upon the purpose of the law as we were studying Psalm 1. I made reference to the fact that somewhere in Hebrews it is said that the law is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8442\">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":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}