>>20088700If we now deny Paul for his past, dont we then deny the entire message of mercy Christ told us too? So what did he do afterwards. He traveled, he spread the gospel, and for this was beaten, and yet kept on working to spread the message and bring the people to Christ. Or so the official story. So what is the message he spread? This is probably the best way to determine his faithfulness, so lets look at the claims
>He spoke against the law and said its illegit when Christ affirms itThats a gross oversimplification. He argues not that the law is bad or Illegit, rather he argues its incomplete and superceded. Any written codex is limited and cant account for every possibility. More so in ancient times when writing material was rare and expansive so it can cover only the basics and as such functions as a guideline of what God deems good and well, and which he abhors. As such he said
>23Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. Christ taught us the more intimite matters of the law, how to combine the mercy and forgiveness with rightousness and justice. I would like to refer to John Chrysostoms take on this from his "8 Homilies against the jews"
>>20088679>he said works dont matteragain gross oversimplification. What he did say is that we dont get saved by our works, but by the mercy and love of God, who wants us to live, and through Whose sacrifice we were cleansed of our sin, making salvation entirely of God, and not of us. He told us to not work for reward, but out of love, for the other people and for God.
