By Michaela Gordoni
Tim Allen is exploring the Apostle Paul’s teachings for spiritual guidance.
“Paul said something very intuitive that I’m still studying, because he says law was basically invented to develop sin,” the TOY STORY star said in a recent podcast interview. “Without law, you don’t know what sinful is. So, law was basically just to give you guardrails of what the world is.”
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When you compare it with philosophy, it makes philosophy pointless.
“What you’re going to find is the cycle of ignorance with philosophy,” he said. “And that’s where I’ve been in the last 20 years. Philosophy gets run in these circles. It can’t explain anything, really.”
Allen recounted Paul’s transformation on the road to Damascus, where God confronted him about persecuting Christians.
“He went back to Jerusalem and said, ‘Guys, we’ve screwed up,'” Allen continued. “‘I think we did kill the actual living entity, whatever you call that, so, I think we’ve got to include these pagans into Judaism.’”
“He wants to include the pagans into the Jewish religion,” Allen said, “because…we shouldn’t have murdered this guy Jesus. […] He was telling the truth.”
Allen also recalled his visit to Jerusalem, where he was struck by Jesus’ existence.
“Out of nowhere [the tour guide said], ‘And that’s where Jesus walked through here,’ and then you’re going, it never occurred to me that the dude actually existed,” the actor said.
Allen read through the whole Bible last year.
“The challenge in reading this Book is how I translate words that the Eternal expresses to the temporary,” he noted.
Allen’s faith journey hasn’t been straightforward. His whole life, he struggled with his father’s death, who was killed by a drunk driver when Allen was 11.
He said, “I was an adolescent that woke up too early when my father was killed, and I stayed at that angry adolescent level.”
“For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church,” he said in 2011. “(I was) still a churchgoer, but constantly a cynic.”
In September, after Erika Kirk publicly forgave her husband’s killer, Allen chose to forgive his dad’s killer.
He shared on X, “I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad,” he wrote. “I will say those words now as I type: ‘I forgive the man who killed my father.’”
Allen’s reflections highlight his ongoing personal and spiritual journey, marked by doubt, loss and forgiveness as he continues to seek meaning and healing.
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