Lawlessness (Romans 6)
from Found in Translation Hosted by Brandon Vélez-Johnson & Brandon Rhodes | Liberation Theology & Biblical Studies
You won't find "The Law" in the LIT Bible because a timeless, pristine moral law floating above and condemning all humanity has nothing to do with the early Christian mindset. What they were much more concerned with was what to do with Torah, the sacred writings of Jesus' own people. Jewish folk outside of their homeland equated reading Torah together to being in the Temple itself! Its practice, memory, and presence were fundamental to their community identity. No wonder the early Christians had to spend so much time sorting out Torah's relationship to Jesus' death and their life together. Paul spent a lot of time trying to mine meaning from the mess, and along the way help the tiny communities across the empire grow in love and faithfulness. ... Read LIT online: www.litbible.net/romans-6 More about the Liberation & Inclusion Translation: https://www.litbible.net/translation-commitments Support LIT & FIT: https://donorbox.org/found-in-translation-1 ... Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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