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.”
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Tim Allen and Bill Maher Discuss Paul and Jesus
Tim Allen is an actor and stand-up comic who is known for TV shows including “Home Improvement” and “Last Man Standing” and movies such as the “Toy Story” franchise, “The Santa Clause” franchise, and “Galaxy Quest.” In August 2024, Allen shared with fans that he was reading the Bible for the first time and called it “amazing and not at all what I was expecting.”
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Bill Maher is the former host of “Politically Incorrect” and the current host of “Real Time With Bill Maher.” He is an atheist, and in 2008, he released the film “Religulous,” which presented a negative view of various religious beliefs, including Christianity.
One description of “Club Random” says it delivers “freewheeling banter,” while another says, “Say what you like, drink what you want.” Throughout each episode, Maher smokes weed and drinks alcohol, with his guests at times joining him. Allen, who said he was 30 years sober, neither smoked nor drank during the conversation.
Topics of their discussion included Allen’s career, the two men’s experiences as stand-up comics, race, the CIA, President Trump, and aliens.
At one point, they started talking about the history of Israel and Palestine, touching on the story of David and Goliath. Allen mentioned he had visited Jerusalem, and his guide, who was Jewish by birth but not religious, “out of nowhere [said], ‘And that’s where Jesus walked through here,’ and then you’re going, it never occurred to me that the dude actually existed.”
Tim Allen told Bill Maher that he (Allen) is studying the Apostle Paul’s teaching that the law reveals our sin.Click to Post
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