However, in scripture we can also read the “nomos” category of laws. These were made for a wandering people… nomads who were settling into the promised land. These are laws which applied to THAT people, settling into THAT land… at THAT time in history. The problem arises that as Christians, we often erroneously mix eternal Torah with nomos… those latter laws that are subjective.

 The problem for the Pharisees and their scribes, and for many of us today… is that we try to use the Law for our own justification. We muddy legal waters. We make or dismiss religious laws which when broken convict us further of felony against God. We try to edit the Torah. We try to soften such decrees as “Thou Shall NOT KILL1” as we abort a child, or “Thou shall NOT commit adultery” as we divorce.

 Here note that in the gospel, Jesus stood in agreement with some of his contemporary Rabbis, and then took the Law to new heights... that if you even think about doing evil you are guilty of the Law. Jesus called out those the legalistic peoples of his time because they… over hundreds of years... had sinfully confused and distorted the Law, so much that a temple filled with lawyers could argue and twist laws to justify harmful activities. In that way the entire nation could be subjugated and controlled. They worshipped the Law rather than God who had given it to them!

  We are still doing this travesty. So, based upon this, the legal court room of the public square becomes confused. It has been this way for centuries.

 For example, during the 1500s Martin Luther took the Roman Catholic Church to task over its misuse of the Law, in that they required people to pay “indulgences” for entry into heaven. Out of that scriptural struggle came the Lutheran Church and other Protestant denominations. However, during those turbulent years some people carried the corrective too far. Riots broke

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