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Conversations That Matter

Reducing Static in the Natural Law Debate

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Jon talks about how some critics of natural law assume natural law definitionally includes sinful behavior or at least can since it relies on man's autonomous opinions, but this isn't the understanding of natural law within the historic Christian tradition.


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The link is in the podcast episode description box. Music Hey everyone. I just wanted to share a quick thought with you about natural law or natural order, or maybe natural revelation, depending on the word you want to use.

1:26.2

But one of the things that I find interesting about the

1:29.2

critiques of natural law is generally they start with this understanding that natural law and

1:39.8

sinful activities are somehow consistent with each other, related to each other.

1:46.5

There's no contradiction between them.

1:48.7

And if you adopt a natural law framework, then you are necessarily adopting sinful behavior

1:59.8

as part of that framework. So it'll often go something like

2:03.2

this because nature exists in the context of a sin-cursed world and because terrible things can

2:13.3

happen in nature, if you were to emulate those terrible things and do them as human beings, things

2:21.6

you see in the animal kingdom, for example, or, or this is more often the case, they'll say,

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