Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to the Christian Post about Kirk Cameron’s new movie, “Saving Christmas.” While I have not had an opportunity to see the movie, I was asked to comment on some of the film’s allegations about the biblical source of many of our Christmas traditions. My first response was, “How can there be any Christmas traditions mentioned in the Bible?”
Most (if not all) of the New Testament emerges during the first century CE,…..
You might be tempted to think this teaching comes from the New Testament. And it does. Jesus says it according to Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:29, and Luke 10:27 and both James (James 2:8) and Paul (Romans 13:9 and Galatians 5:14) refer to it as the foundation of the faith. But it was first stated in the Old Testament, in Leviticus.
When Jesus speaks this saying in Matthew and Mark, He is quoting from Leviticus 19:18 in answer to the…..