• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
  • We hope the site problems here are now solved, however, if you still have any issues, please start a ticket in Contact Us

Tim Allen Talks to Bill Maher About Studying the Apostle Paul’s Teaching That the Law Reveals Sin

Michie

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Feb 5, 2002
187,715
68,796
Woods
✟6,334,526.00
Country
United States
Gender
Female
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Actor and comedian Tim Allen told fellow comedian and political commentator Bill Maher that he (Allen) is studying the Apostle Paul’s teaching that the law reveals our sin. Allen joined Maher on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, where the two also discussed Jesus and early Christianity.

Paul “said something very intuitive that I’m still studying because he says law was basically invented to develop sin,” said Allen. “Without law, you don’t know what sinful is. So, law was basically just to give you guardrails of what the world is.”

Allen contrasted that view with the study of philosophy, saying, “What you’re going to find is the cycle of ignorance with philosophy. And that’s where I’ve been in the last 20 years. Philosophy gets run in these circles. It can’t explain anything really.”

Editor’s note: This video contains language some might find offensive.

Tim Allen and Bill Maher Discuss Paul and Jesus


Continued below.
 

Firstlightdawn

Active Member
Jan 17, 2026
338
60
73
Cuyahoga Falls
✟4,112.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Messianic
Marital Status
Married
“Without law, you don’t know what sinful is.
Yes, the Law was given to teach us how deeply we need to be freed from our sin. David makes this very clear: there are consequences when we do not live rightly before God. In fact, the Great Commission is to make disciples and to teach people to follow the commandments of Jesus — to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

The problem is that many of us would rather give our neighbor a knuckle sandwich. To actually love our neighbor is beyond our natural comprehension. It requires a transformation only God can produce.
 
Upvote 0