{"id":38769,"date":"2015-05-17T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=38769"},"modified":"2015-05-09T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:28:28","slug":"letter-of-the-law-vs-the-spirit-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/letter-of-the-law-vs-the-spirit-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of the Law vs. the Spirit of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I wrote a LONG post about <a title=\"The Mosaic Law for the Christian\" href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/mosaic-law\/\">the place of the Mosaic Law in the life of the Christian<\/a>. It was over 6000 words. Yikes! 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