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Aug 3, 2015 · In Ephesians, Paul speaks of the abolition of the law leading to the creation of one 'new man', in whom obedience is rooted in trying to 'discern what is pleasing to the Lord' with 'a sincere heart', which is the antithesis of following the letter of the law for appearances' sake. 1
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Paul reads the law as commandments, as prophecy, as wisdom, etc. Hence Paul’s varied and strong statements about the law may stand in tact without the need to balance them or to water them down in the interests of harmonization.
Apr 20, 2015 · Paul trained as a Pharisee and became a zealot of Judaism and the Mosaic Law. Paul thought he doing God’s will and keeping the Law in arresting, torturing, and killing those who believed Jesus was the promised Messiah. How wrong he was! In God’s matchless grace, God saved Saul of Tarsus.
- Logic and Consistency
- The Meaning of The Contrast Between Works of The Law and Faith in Christ
- The Christian’s Relationship to The Law—Paul’S Ambiguous Verdict
Räisänen’s thesis about Paul’s self-contradictory theology of the law represents an important swing of the scholarly pendulum back to the radical criticism of Paul which was so common in the last decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries: it is no accident that he so often quotes W. Wrede and P. Wernle with approval. Th...
Sanders has argued his case about the character of Palestinian Judaism so effectively that it will be extremely difficult for anyone to reinstate the old consensus opinion that Jesus’ and Paul’s contemporaries were merit-earning legalists. I am also convinced by Sanders and Stendahl that the proper context for understanding Paul’s arguments about w...
It seems to me that scholars have so far been least successful in explaining this puzzling aspect of Paul’s theology of the law—that is, how he can talk of Christians being removed from the sphere of the law while also sometimes quoting it with approval as the law they fulfil. It has at least become clear that many of the commonly accepted explanat...
Jan 16, 2024 · For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, (Ephesians 2:14–15)
Jan 8, 2015 · Paul is using Deuteronomy 30 to say: Ah, but in the enabling promise of covenant renewal, God himself holds out a new way of ‘doing the law’, a way which will be ‘in your mouth and in your heart’, a way which will come from God himself in the form of his ‘word’, and which will enable you to ‘do’ it.
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Paul says that the law is related to transgressions. A transgression is the violation of a standard. The law provides the objective standard by which the violations are measured. In order for sinners to know how sinful they really are, how far they deviate from God's standards, God gave the law.
