The name “Mogget” may mean something to you: a graduate student at a Catholic university, the amazingly well-spoken Bible scholar from Faith-Promoting Rumor. To us, she’s D. J. Kirby, and she’s agreed to post with us for a while.

In the final chapters of Romans, Paul introduces the terms “strong” and “weak” to distinguish between those who enjoy freedom from the Law and those who do not. The “strong” are those who understand, as Paul did, that righteousness comes by faith (15:1). The “weak” believe they must also continue in certain Jewish traditions, possibly including abstinence from meat sacrificed to idols and observance of holy days (14:1-2, 5). (more…)