Sermon Tone Analysis

Introdução

Nessa semana, estudaremos as leis na Bíblia.

Esse é um tema crucial para a compreensão do plano de Deus revelado na história e registrado nas Escrituras.

Afinal, todo nosso livro sagrado, basicamente, trata dessa questão.

God’s means of consecrating his people to himself.

The nature and content of “law” may change, but the goal remains the same: maturity and conformity to the image of God.

The Bible preserves several significant collections of laws: the Decalogue, the Covenant Code, the Holiness Code, and the Deuteronomic laws.

These collections, although not labeled as such by the ancient writers, have been identified as literary units by modern scholars.

Most, but not all of the formally stated biblical laws are found in these pentateuchal collections; and supplementary knowledge of biblical legal practices comes from narrative accounts and other, nonlegal books.

But the Bible remains the single most important source for the study of Israelite society and culture.

Modern archaeology, to be sure, has recovered meaningful data relating to some aspects of life in biblical times; however, the disappointingly small quantity of extrabiblical ancient Hebrew written records limits the ability of scholars to reconstruct and describe cultural features such as the nature and practices of biblical law beyond that which is recorded in the Bible itself.