Understanding the Law Part 1: The LAW

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tim and Jon discuss why God gave so many laws to ancient Israel in the Bible. There are 613 laws found in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, and they were the basis of God's covenant with Israel. What role does the laws play in relationship to the overall narrative of the Old Testament?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is the first episode of the Bible Project podcast.
0:07.0	My name is John Collins and today I'm going to be talking with Dr. Timothy McE PhD, the
0:13.7	co-creator of the Bible Project with me.
0:16.4	We recently put a video out on the law and there was a ton of stuff we had to cut out
0:22.8	of the video.
0:23.8	We have to do this in every video.
0:25.7	And so this is a conversation to fill out all the things that we left out, but also to
0:30.6	go deeper into the things that we brought up in the video but couldn't dig deeply into.
0:36.3	In this first episode, we're going to talk about what are these laws?
0:40.1	How did ancient Israel get them?
0:42.2	What was the purpose of these laws?
0:45.0	In the second episode, we're going to look at how the Old Testament prophets thought about
0:50.1	the law and the need for a new heart to obey the law.
0:54.2	And then we're also going to look at Jesus and how he jumps in the conversation and
0:57.7	turns things on its head.
0:59.8	This has been amazing for me to listen to and discuss and I'm glad you guys are joining
1:06.5	the conversation.
1:07.8	You could follow us on Twitter at joinbibleproject.
1:11.2	Facebook.com slash join the Bible Project.
1:14.4	We'd love to hear from you.
1:15.4	All right, here we go.
1:24.2	So let's get started from the beginning.
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