Misconceptions Concerning the Law When the Church of the second and third centuries began to drift away from its Jewish roots, misconceptions developed concerning aspects of God’s Law, the Torah. This was due largely to the influence of Greek philosophy and pagan ideas. The Goodness of the Law The first misconception concerned the inherent goodness of the Law. The Greeks only had one word for law, which tended toward the negative and lacked the ability to convey the depth of the Jewish concept of
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