The Gospels depict Jesus as the herald and agent of Israel's long-awaited national restoration.

He's coming and saying, look, now is the time that God is coming to rain over us once more.

Now is the time that the restoration is materializing through my work.

So believe this good news.

And that within that, he's teaching, he's the authoritative interpreter of the law and what will mark people out who will experience that national restoration.

Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology on. My guest today is Dr. Paul Sloan,

who is the chair of theology and associate professor of early Christianity

at Houston Christian University. He received his PhD from St. Andrews University and is the author of

this outstanding book. Oh my word, Jesus and the Law of Moses. I learned so much from this book.

He challenged a lot of my presuppositions, corrected some of my assumptions about Jesus and the law.

And I think you're going to enjoy this conversation.

Are you prepared to have some of your categories opened up, corrected, blown, tweaked, maybe confirmed.

But I absolutely enjoyed this book and thought it was very well researched, reasonably argued, if not very convincingly argued.

And yeah, this conversation dives into a lot of those, what about this?

What about that kind of issues with regard to

jesus's relationship to the law of moses um this i would say this this episode is it's a it gets

gets a little on the geeky side um but it's very clear uh but you might want to have your bible open

we do reference some scholarly names and stuff but it's not it doesn't go't go too, um, too deep into weeds, but would be helpful if you have, you maybe your Bible open and you kind of look at some of the passages we work through. Um, so I just, I, yeah, could have talked to Paul for hours and I'm sure we will, uh, talk again. So please welcome to the show for the first time, the one and only Dr. Paul Sloan.

Dr. Paul Sloan, I am so excited to talk to you. I read a lot of books, but I, you know, to wade through

a pretty beefy, substantial academic book.

You know, it takes a while to slowly work through it.

And so I don't do a ton of that.

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