{"id":13599,"date":"2023-01-27T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T17:44:00","slug":"works-of-mens-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13599\/works-of-mens-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0&#8220;Works of Men&#8217;s Hands&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I am right now translating the tract about &#8220;Works&#8221;*, and I paused where you&#8217;re listing the kinds of works found in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At &#8220;Works of men&#8217;s hands&#8221; your description says &#8220;buildings, highways, industries, and other human accomplishments&#8221;.\u00a0I did a quick search, so maybe it wasn&#8217;t thorough enough, but the only references I&#8217;ve found in the Bible on &#8220;works on men&#8217;s hands&#8221; talks about false gods made from wood, silver, gold, etc. When talking about these idols, the Bible uses the phrase &#8220;works of men&#8217;s hands&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t find any references on the things you list in your description though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Was your intention to demonstrate what works of men&#8217;s hands can mean in today&#8217;s society? Just wanted to clarify that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Zoli<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Yes, that is right.\u00a0 But you can put &#8220;churches, statues, religious utensils, and the like&#8221; if you want to.\u00a0 That might actually be more appropriate to the case<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">*\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-028-works\">Going to Jesus.com Tracts &#8211; Works<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I am right now translating the tract about &#8220;Works&#8221;*, and I paused where you&#8217;re listing the kinds of works found in the Bible. At &#8220;Works of men&#8217;s hands&#8221; your description says &#8220;buildings, highways, industries, and other human accomplishments&#8221;.\u00a0I did a quick search, so maybe it wasn&#8217;t thorough enough, but the only references I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}