This Sunday we took a look at some of the things Paul has to say about laws, law, and the Law, in Galatians. Was Paul confused? He says we are not under the law, then he says we are under a law, and then he says there are some things we do which are against […]
Still more questions
This section of Matthew is filled with questions. As I think I mentioned last week, these are a particular kind of question, the “gotcha” kind. In Matthew 22.15-46 Jesus deals with: a combined question about taxes from the Pharisees and Herodians, a question about marriage from the Sadducees and a question about the Law from […]
One law is enough
This Sunday we talked about laws and law. There is something fundamentally human about the need to make laws or rules and something equally fundamentally human about trying to circumvent those laws or rules. I wonder if this second tendency is the source of Paul’s observation in Romans 5:20 “But law came in, with the […]