Learning to Read the Bible, Week 17: What Even IS Biblical Law?! - a podcast by Lakeside UMC

Sermon: What Even IS Biblical Law?!

Scripture: Psalm 1

Speaker: Rev. Dan Wunderlich

Description: There’s a memorable bit of dialogue from the film The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” In some ways, this could be said of us when we talk about the Law in the Bible. And so, in order to learn how to read biblical law, we might first have to unlearn how we currently read it.

Sermon Series: Learning to Read the Bible

Even if we accept that the Bible is not a textbook or moral instruction manual, we can still desire more clarity. For example, why are so many details in some of the stories either vague or missing completely? It turns out that this isn’t a mistake or just some cultural quirk of ancient literature, but it is an intentional tool of the biblical authors.

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