Natural law

concept · 15 episodes

208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic 21 Oct 2024 19:36¶ 50 “The Stoics were the only ones who really answered the question, “How do we frame knowledge, reason, and law for a cosmopolitan empire?” They…” 20:30¶ 51 “This is not the Christian idea of general revelation where the work of the law remains in us because we’re the image of God.…”

207From Republic to Oligarchy to Empire 7 Oct 2024 5:58¶ 14 “Along the way he writes a treatise – a number of them actually – but this from one. He says, “True law is right…” 6:54¶ 15 “The Stoics had already wandered over this way, and we’ll talk about them probably next time, this idea that there is a law inherent…” 7:14¶ 16 “He writes, “The state then is the incarnation of reason and of law and it ought to be the chief end of all men”…”

204The Founding of Rome 26 Aug 2024 41:35¶ 125 “In the process, as they looked at other laws they realized that there’s going to be some disputes and differences. “We do things this…” 42:23¶ 126 “So we have the first practical glimmerings of what will become natural law, the simple realization that law is religious and we’ve got a…”

186The Worldview that Shaped Western Civilization 25 Mar 2024 1:51¶ 12 “The thing is that even theologians today, and some of them claiming to be Reformed, will tell us that these things are written in…” 2:28¶ 13 “Within some circles it’s almost become a shibboleth of how can you insist upon bringing the Bible out into the civil sphere when everybody…” 14:11¶ 48 “And so with each of the commandments. The world does not agree. There is no common law of nations. Deuteronomy tells us that every…”

153A New Law (Part 2) 16 Jan 2023 35:48¶ 131 “Anyhow, we need to talk about that sometime but maybe now we should get back to the main point, which I think we’ve nearly…” 38:24¶ 139 “One of the things I’ve been interested to discover in the past year or so is that natural law, at least as far as…” 38:48¶ 140 “No, no, no. You need special revelation for God’s moral law and his moral character.”

152A New Law (Part 1) 9 Jan 2023 36:17¶ 136 “A concept I’ve leaned a bit more heavily into in my own personal theology, I guess, is if God made the world, it’s going…” 37:29¶ 138 “When you look at people who are not believers, who have never heard of the gospel, and they still have recognized some of these…” 38:06¶ 139 “It kind of comes back to honesty, which is something that God would, perhaps unknowingly to them, give them, but if they’re honest about…”

133Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 5) - By What Other Standard? 29 Aug 2022 18:00¶ 47 “That’s natural law and it percolated among Hellenistic society. Some of the Romans picked it up. The Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who delighted to kill…” 31:36¶ 93 “Natural law is supposed to be logical and rational and open to anybody who’s honest (there’s a problem), but if that’s so, it should…” 31:59¶ 94 “This natural law thing, is this law that you’ve discovered compatible with the Trinitarian-based law found in scripture, particularly the 10 commandments? Or is…”

132You'll Know It When you See It 22 Aug 2022 44:16¶ 171 “The words here that I think are important for us are they show the work of the law written in their hearts. It doesn’t…” 38:29¶ 143 “Paul’s argument is, “Wait, you’ve gone too far. I’m not saying that natural man, fallen man has no concept of right or wrong, just…” 39:24¶ 145 “We do this, and Paul says anytime you condemn something in another person, anytime you say, “That’s wrong,” and make a moral and ethical…”

129Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 2) - Dispensationalism v. Covenant Theology 1 Aug 2022 22:47¶ 67 “At times the church has opted for a natural law, which they’ve tried to identify with general revelation. That seemed to work for a…” 22:00¶ 66 “Again we could talk about do the case laws play in, and the book of the covenant, and restitution and death penalties. Let’s just…”

128Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 1) 25 Jul 2022 9:51¶ 26 “The next option for Christians is, “Well, there is this thing called natural law.” We’ll be talking about that in a few podcasts from…” 31:36¶ 80 “But as far as his public argument was concerned – and that’s what we have to hold him to – he was content with…” 31:58¶ 81 “And because of the way he thought, the way he’d been raised, and the society he was in, he modeled, paralleled, black mirrored side…”

117More Things Are Wrought By Prayer 9 May 2022 20:50¶ 67 “People are like, “What’s natural law then?” Natural law, as Bryan said earlier, is simply God’s faithfulness. God is so faithful that we can…” 19:36¶ 61 “The question is, “True or false? God created the natural laws that run the universe.” 20:13¶ 66 “There are no natural laws that run the universe. God runs the universe, personally and immediately by his providence,” whereby as it were by…”

110Rulers 21 Mar 2022 17:13¶ 43 “I would define Jordan Peterson, at least as far as his popularity, as the preeminent example of natural law knowledge. Essentially, he has observed…” 18:08¶ 44 “He’s gotten to this point that he’s at through decades of observation and study and work with other human beings. What is really important…” 7:44¶ 21 “I think there’s an aspect too where the morals that you express, you can look at them and say, “These are good morals,” and…”

90An Unlikely Hero - Throwing Out a Fleece 1 Nov 2021 20:49¶ 55 “Dominion implies predictability, a pattern of behavior on God’s side that we can trust, not because God is bound by any law of nature…” 21:32¶ 58 “Exactly. More than once I’ve spoken to Christian teachers about this and have said, “Are you ready for a paradigm shift? True or false?…” 22:05¶ 60 “They hear “God created…” and they’re all about that, and they don’t hear the rest of it, “…the natural laws that run the universe.”…”

28Prince of Egypt (part 2): Of Miracles and Magic 12 Jul 2020 21:33¶ 60 “There’s so many things there I could jump onto, because this is something I’ve been talking about for a very, very long time. I…” 21:58¶ 61 “Then I say, “No, it’s not. There are no natural laws that govern the universe. What color are they, purple? Where do they live?” 22:10¶ 63 “Yeah, and do the particles really stop and read them before they go off to do their business? God governs the universe, as you…”

14Noah, the Culture Bearer 5 Apr 2020 14:29¶ 56 “Even in our own Reformed Presbyterian traditions we give lip service to this, but isn’t it true that far too often, if we try…” 15:01¶ 58 “A lot of times I see people revert to natural law because it’s much easier to make the argument and find common ground and…” 15:27¶ 59 “True. One of the things that I’ve noticed at the very least is in the Reformed Presbyterian tradition, of which I’m a part, the…”