Many newspapers carry home living...
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Many newspapers carry home living sections. Often recipes of different kinds will be printed. Readers who do use these recipes are sometimes amused by the fact that days later recipe corrections are printed. "Last week's pie filling should have one not 11 teaspoons of allspice." or "The zucchini bread recipe should have had three eggs not one." The consequences for adding and subtracting necessary ingredients can only be calculated by the waste of time and materials and problems caused for many people.
Even a small difference in a given prescription for something can make a very big difference in the lives of many people. Recipe misprints are a small reminder of the much bigger and more important spiritual miscalculations and choices we can make.
The writer of Deuteronomy cautions the people against adding or subtracting from God's Word. We are called to accept God's Word not as we wish it could be or as we might selectively perceive it to be. Deviating from that Word can mean great and certain tragedy. Instead, God's Word "as is" is meant to guide and bless us without uncertainty or error.
-- Hedahl
Even a small difference in a given prescription for something can make a very big difference in the lives of many people. Recipe misprints are a small reminder of the much bigger and more important spiritual miscalculations and choices we can make.
The writer of Deuteronomy cautions the people against adding or subtracting from God's Word. We are called to accept God's Word not as we wish it could be or as we might selectively perceive it to be. Deviating from that Word can mean great and certain tragedy. Instead, God's Word "as is" is meant to guide and bless us without uncertainty or error.
-- Hedahl
