The Law

  • Nowhere on That Spectrum

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    Something interesting happens when I share certain things on Facebook. One camp reads it and responds with enthusiasm — clearly hearing confirmation of their position. Then I share something else and the other camp does the same thing. Both camps think I’m with them. Neither can see what is only observable from a different perspective….

  • From Stone to Flesh

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    The word most English readers of the Bible encounter as “law” is the Greek nomos, which the translators of the Septuagint used to render the Hebrew Torah. The translation is understandable. It is also misleading. Torah does not mean law in the legislative sense — a code of statutes, a set of enforceable regulations. It comes from yarah:…