Tag: Law
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Listening Toward Sunday
The lectionary has us jump to Galatians 3:23-29, to a summary of the relationship between faith and law. But Paul has done a fair amount of reasoning to get to that summary. For Paul, that Christ was proclaimed as crucified (3:1), that they’ve experienced the Spirit of God working among and within them because of…
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Listening Toward Sunday
Though the lectionary text jumps over the section about Paul’s confrontation with Peter by choosing Galatians 2:15-21 for this Sunday, the “we are Jews by nature and not sinners . . .” of verse 15 seems to refer directly to Paul and Peter. Despite the situation involving Peter’s improper withdrawal from table fellowship with Gentile…