{"id":521,"date":"2004-07-19T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=521"},"modified":"2004-07-19T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T03:03:47","slug":"shamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/521","title":{"rendered":"Shamar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crcc.org\/converse\/1905.ram\">an excellent sermon<\/a> <small> [Real Audio or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crcc.org\/converse\/1905.mp3\">MP3<\/a>]<\/small>, Brian McLaren points out that the Hebrew word <em>shamar<\/em> is found in both the following passages, and translated &#8216;keep&#8217;. I would say that this is significant. Our relationship with creation is analagous to God&#8217;s with us. <\/p>\n<p>Numbers 6 &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lord bless you and <strong>keep<\/strong> you;<br \/>\nthe Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;<br \/>\nthe Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Genesis 2  &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and <strong>keep<\/strong> it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an excellent sermon [Real Audio or MP3], Brian McLaren points out that the Hebrew word shamar is found in both the following passages, and translated &#8216;keep&#8217;. I would say that this is significant. Our relationship with creation is analagous to God&#8217;s with us. Numbers 6 &#8211; The Lord bless you and keep you; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovideo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}