of the Law with doing and the Gospel with believing. The logic could be stated in this way: 1. Salvation comes only by believing. 2. The law is associated with doing and not with believing. 3. Therefore, the law cannot bring salvation. Some contemporary scholars, however, would deny this conclusion—not because they want to argue that salvation can come by works (i.e., denying point 1), but because they think that the law can be associated with believing (i.e., denying point 2). There is no doubt