Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision

course with the truth of God's word. And now here's David.

Thank you for joining me for this week's episode of God, Law, and Liberty and I'm

delighted to have you join me for the next 15 or 16 minutes or so and today I'm going to offer a proposition that may be controversial to some.

Probably would have been controversial to me a few years ago, assuming I had even really

understood it. And for those who might find it controversial, I hope you'll hear me out both this week and next week because what

we're going to cover today will help us better understand, I believe, what I covered two weeks

ago using clips from remarks made by Professor

Jonathan Burnside at the Hale's Institute in a lecture on biblical law.

And here I'm speaking for myself and if my shoe fits you too then you need to wear it.

But as I further reflected on what he said about reading the Bible like a Benthamite.

It proved to me the extent to which I read the Bible, and particularly the word translated law in a Benthamite fashion, as commands of

a sovereign for the violation of which a punishment or sanction would follow of course the big one being going to

hell. And I confess another thing is that I have too often spoken of law in terms of

our being in physical ways only. Sometimes I've used the

comparison of the law that pertains to our being as being like that of a rock. You may have heard me talk about the law of the

rock is that it's useful for many things. It's nature, the law pertaining to what it

is for, but it's not good for eating and nutrition and that's true.

And of course, by parity of reasoning, violating the laws of our nature,

for instance being promiscuous, let's say, well, it carries within it its

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