The Hollywood star Tim Allen of Home Improvement and Last Man Standing fame has spent the past two years reading the Bible in its entirety. In a new interview, Allen is revealing that he’s now studying the portion of the New Testament written by the Apostle Paul.
Allen Talks Apostle Paul
While appearing on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast on Monday, Allen opened up about his journey reading the Bible. He told Maher, who is famously an atheist, that he is currently learning about Paul’s writings on the law. Specifically, Allen is studying how it exposes humanity’s sin nature.
“Paul said something very intuitive that I’m still studying, because he says law was basically invented to develop sin,” explained Allen, 72. “Without law, you don’t know what sinful is. So, law was basically just to give you guardrails of what the world is.”
Allen went on to compare this to what he’s studied in philosophy.
“What you’re going to find is the cycle of ignorance with philosophy,” he stated. “And that’s where I’ve been in the last 20 years. Philosophy gets run in these circles. It can’t explain anything really.”
At another point in the interview, Allen recalled visiting Jerusalem. There, Allen was incredibly moved when a tour guide started to point out places that Jesus Christ himself actually walked and visited.
“Out of nowhere [the tour guide pointed out], ‘And that’s where Jesus walked through here,’ and then you’re going, it never occurred to me that the dude actually existed,” Allen recounted.
“Well, He may not have,” Maher fired back in an attempt to shoot this down.
Allen, however, was not having any of it.
“Not according to this guy,” Allen said, referring to the tour guide’s insistence that Jesus existed. “Because he said that’s where he did, that’s Bethlehem, this is where he walked. The Zionist guide said at one point, he goes, [Jesus was] probably the strongest, most powerful Jew ever.”
Allen Doubles Down
Allen then remembered his daughter telling the tour guide that Jesus was a Christian. Maher dismissed this as being a “stupid” comment, pointing out that Jesus was Jewish and that Christianity emerged from Judaism.
“That Christianity came out of Judaism, that, you know, for the first hundred years after Christ died, it was sort of a debate,” Maher argued.
“Not even a debate,” Allen replied.
Allen proceeded to shift the conversation back to Paul. He recounted Paul’s powerful conversion experience on the road to Damascus. There, Jesus confronted him as he was traveling to persecute Christians.
According to Allen, Jesus asked Paul, “What’s your freaking problem with me?”
“And he [Paul] goes, ‘Oh, God, we screwed up,’” Allen added. “He went back to Jerusalem and said, ‘Guys, we’ve screwed up 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.’”
Allen, who majored in philosophy in college, admitted that he is “still studying” Paul’s teachings.
Allen’s Biblical Journey
Back in 2024, Allen announced his plans to read the entire Bible cover to cover.
“Never took the time in all my years to ever read and really read the Bible,” Allen said at the time. “Currently, almost through the Jerusalem Bible Old Testament and almost done with the Prophets. Next up to New Testament. So far amazing and not at all what I was expecting.”
In February of 2025, Allen revealed that he’d finished the Old Testament. He described the experience of reading it as being a “treasure.”
“After nearly a year, I have finished [the] entire Old Testament and the experience of re-reading, dedicated focus and no drifting has made this a humbling, overwhelming experience,” Allen gushed. “What a treasure.”
In the crazy world of Hollywood, it’s rare to find someone who is as open with their strong Christian faith as Allen is. If only we had more stars like him out there.
God bless you, Tim Allen!