Jesus fulfilled the law! It says so right there in Matthew. But what on earth does that actually mean? Different people have had vastly different interpretations of that idea, and the consequences of their ideas are significant! Are the old laws still in effect, or did Jesus abolish them? Should we throw away Leviticus? Should we stop eating shellfish? What does it mean???
0:00 Intro and podcast premise
1:55 Topic introduction: Jesus and fulfilling the Law
2:17 Modern Christian confusion about Old Testament law
3:35 “Jesus fulfilled the law” — what does that mean?
4:52 Setting the context: Matthew 5 and the Sermon on the Mount
5:16 Reading Matthew 5:17–20
6:05 The antitheses and escalation of the law
6:39 Does Jesus require continued law observance?
7:03 What does “fulfill” mean? Greek analysis
8:11 “Until heaven and earth pass away” — chronological markers
9:23 Apocalyptic implications of fulfillment
10:28 Problems with the “laws trapped in Jesus” interpretation
11:11 Breaking commandments and the Kingdom of Heaven
11:31 Being more righteous than the Pharisees
11:51 Pharisees in early Jewish context
12:56 Harmonizing Matthew with other Gospels
13:14 Comparison with Luke’s version
14:14 Can negative laws be “fulfilled”?
15:08 “The law and the prophets” as Scripture
15:40 Jewish concepts of canon and genre
17:08 Torah, Prophets, and Writings (Tanakh)
18:01 Scope of biblical law and authority
18:55 When and how the law ends
19:58 Eschatology and Matthew’s concerns
20:56 Authorial intent vs. historical Jesus
22:09 Gentiles, law, and early Christian tensions
23:04 Paul, circumcision, and kosher laws
24:10 Is Matthew pushing back against Paul?
25:08 Matthew’s emphasis on keeping the law
26:36 Biblical tension and theological disagreement
27:47 Scripture as conversation, not univocal system
28:13 Gospel authors debating each other
29:19 Problems with forced harmonization
30:21 Letting texts disagree and speak for themselves
31:40 Wrap-up, support, and Patreon
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Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Sunday, January 11, 2026
History Minute (069): Legal protections for former enslaved people in the 1860s and 1870s
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1868, and it reads as follows:
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Then in 1870, the 15th Amendment was adopted. It reads:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
These amendments and other laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s limited the rights of states and made it a crime to deprive Black people of their rights. They also provided for Black people to -- without discrimination -- enter into contracts, buy property, and patronize public accommodations such as hotels, theaters, and railroads.
Read more!
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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Friday, March 14, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Final Exit (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
This week, we track a tsunami of (mostly bad) bills in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, West Virginia and North Dakota.
After hearing sneak previews of some of FFRF’s other shows — “Ask an Atheist,” “Freethought Matters” and “We Dissent” — we talk with Brian Ruder, president of the board of the Final Exit Network, which offers people who are unbearably suffering an intractable medical condition the option to die legally and peacefully.
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FFRF turns violations into success stories (Freethought Today, March 2025)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s legal team gets thousands of requests every year to look into potential state/church violations in schools and other government agencies. FFRF takes this role seriously . . . and it shows! After FFRF determines if there is a constitutional infraction, it initially sends out a letter to the organization, asking for the problem to be rectified. Often times, this is enough to get the offending group to end the violation or alter their actions going forward.
The following write-ups are from 30 recent successful outcomes (victories!) of FFRF’s initial letter contacts, organized by state and listed alphabetically.
The following write-ups are from 30 recent successful outcomes (victories!) of FFRF’s initial letter contacts, organized by state and listed alphabetically.
https://www.freethoughttoday.com/sections/100-front-page/ffrf-turns-violations-into-success-stories/
Monday, February 24, 2025
Friday, October 25, 2024
Opinion | Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead - The New York Times
"I'm not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn't be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don't think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump's legal schemes. He can't run the same playbook he ran in 2020..."
Monday, June 3, 2024
Trump found guilty: 5 key aspects of the trial explained by a law professor
The Conversation U.S.' politics and society editor Amy Lieberman spoke with Gabriel J. Chin, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, to better understand the verdict.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Let’s talk about the guy who helped pass Arizona’s 1864 abortion law - The Washington Post
While Jones lived in Arizona, he was elected to represent Tucson in the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly. And then, when that legislature convened in 1864, he was elected speaker of the House.
And it was that legislature — the one Jones presided over in 1864, after he had already abandoned his first wife, and married a 12-year-old and was just weeks away from marrying a 15-year-old, though still a few years away from marrying a 14-year-old — it was that legislature that passed a law reading, "Every person who shall administer or cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal substances, or shall use or cause to be used any instruments whatever, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than two years nor more than five years."…
Friday, March 22, 2024
China hits back at criticism of Hong Kong’s controversial new security law
Beijing dismisses chorus of concern from western governments over punitive new law as slander…
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Texas migrant law S.B.4 takes effect with divided Supreme Court ruling - The Washington Post
The law, known as S.B. 4, makes it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border and allows Texas officials to deport undocumented individuals, though Mexico said Tuesday that it would not accept anyone sent back by the state and condemned the law as "encouraging the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling that violate the human rights of the migrant community."…
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
How to read a Supreme Court case: 10 tips for nonlawyers
"I have taught law to undergraduates for the past 12 years, so I am sympathetic to the nonlawyer's plight. Here are some techniques I teach my students to help them break a Supreme Court opinion into digestible parts. They should help you begin to understand what was decided, why and how in the important cases being considered by the court this term..."
Monday, October 30, 2023
Trump’s Festivus (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #48 )
This week, Trump’s team filed several motions in the DC case. Three are motions to dismiss; one is a motion to strike language from the indictment.
Jack Smith brings up Trump’s violations of the New York civil trial gag order.
Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from Trump's 2020 campaign.
A panel of federal judges rejects requests to allow live television coverage of Trump’s federal trials.
More delays in Florida as Judge Cannon to hear arguments about DoJ’s compliance with discovery.
More information comes out about that Australian Billionaire who likes hearing about US nuclear submarine capabilities.
Plus, listener questions and more.
Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from Trump's 2020 campaign.
A panel of federal judges rejects requests to allow live television coverage of Trump’s federal trials.
More delays in Florida as Judge Cannon to hear arguments about DoJ’s compliance with discovery.
More information comes out about that Australian Billionaire who likes hearing about US nuclear submarine capabilities.
Plus, listener questions and more.
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Monday, July 10, 2023
How the recent SCOTUS session renewed questions about the Court's legitimacy (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)
NY Times legal reporter Adam Liptak says the Court's liberal members have accused the conservative supermajority of engaging in politics and not applying established law to the questions before them.
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
Abortion is a Religious Right (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad and Dan dedicate this episode to discussing the state of reproductive rights, activism, and law one year since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Brad begins by going through the numbers on support for abortion in the country, policy and campaign surprises since Roe’s fall, and the ways Democrats and Republicans have responded.
In the second segment Dan outlines the American religious groups who are suing to have abortion bans overturned in their states on the basis of religious freedom. The argument: abortion is a religious right that is part of their religious practice.
This leads to a broader discussion of how law and religion work in the USA and why using religion as a means of policy change is so effective.
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In the second segment Dan outlines the American religious groups who are suing to have abortion bans overturned in their states on the basis of religious freedom. The argument: abortion is a religious right that is part of their religious practice.
This leads to a broader discussion of how law and religion work in the USA and why using religion as a means of policy change is so effective.
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Friday, May 19, 2023
Harry Litman – A Panorama of Trump’s Massive Legal Problems (Al Franken podcast)
Manhattan, Georgia, Documents, Jan. 6, & the Civil Cases!!!
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
A Supreme Court case seeks to legalize assault rifles in all 50 states - Vox
The case challenges a Naperville, Illinois, ordinance and a similar Illinois state law, both of which ban assault weapons, which the state law defines to include certain semiautomatic rifles such as AR-15s and AK-47s. Additionally, the state law prohibits the sale of a "large capacity ammunition feeding device," which the statute defines as long gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, or handgun magazines that hold more than 15 bullets…
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Saturday, March 4, 2023
Nauta Good Witness (feat. Lisa Rubin) (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack, a Special Counsel podcast, episode #13)
This week: new subpoenas for Ivanka and Jared: a motionto compel Mike Pence to testify; how the box containing classified schedules ended up at Mar-a-Lago; a ruling regarding Rep. Perry’s phone; FEC filing showing nearly $10M of save America PAC money was spent on legal bills; new evidence suggests Trump Admin was aware there was no election fraud in Arizona; and more.
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Saturday, February 18, 2023
How Christian Crusaders Weaponized the Court to Steal a Country (feat. Andrew Seidel)
A federal court ruling allows a Kentucky photography business to openly discriminate against protected classes of citizens under the guise of religious freedom. Constitutional and civil rights attorney, Andrew Seidel, joins us to discuss how this is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the victories already proclaimed by a literal cabal of Christian Crusaders pulling the strings at the highest levels of U.S. power.
ANDREW'S BOOKS
- American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom: https://amzn.to/3U3pKvl
- The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American https://amzn.to/3sV6Bje
- Signed Copies: http://bit.ly/signedac
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Saturday, February 4, 2023
Trump Sues Woodward, Gets Close to Making a Valid Legal Argument (Opening Arguments podcast OA687)
A new record for him! Today Liz Dye has two stories for us. First, Trump has sued Bob Woodward for profiting off of his voice in his new book. Does he have a case? Well, almost assuredly not. But he happens to come close to a real argument, and you know, that’s like really impressive!
Then, Liz breaks down new news on Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s still so confusing but Liz helps us make sense of it!
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Then, Liz breaks down new news on Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s still so confusing but Liz helps us make sense of it!
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