Washing of Hands and “All Foods Clean” The Incongruities in Interpreting Mark 7

Mark 7 finds Jesus engaged in a normal discussion about the Torah and tradition, that seems to many Christians, to end in a note lifting Torah and tradition.  Jesus argues that the Pharisees and Scribe’s means of following the traditions of the elders invalidates the Law of the LORD.  However, if Jesus did as Christians […]

The Law in a world of Laws

In The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy Sayers makes some clarifying distinctions about “law” and “laws”. She speaks of laws that are based on consensus, contrasted with laws rooted in nature of things . The second are generally learned by observation and subject to the test of an if/then clause. If an apple is released […]