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One New Man: The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the Bible, Paul argues that sin has broken humanity’s relationship with God as well as his fellow man, and he recognizes Jesus as God’s provision for the universal problem of sin. Therefore, Christ’s death for our sin is God’s only solution to racial hostility and the only provision for racial reconciliation. Today, many Christians still allow cultural prejudices to shape their understanding...

is only metaphorical since when Paul wrote this letter both the walls of Jerusalem and the Second Temple were standing. Thus, Jesus’ death did not literally destroy the dividing walls of Jerusalem that protected Israel from its enemies nor did his death destroy the walls that separated the Gentiles from the inner courts of the temple. Rather, Jesus’ death destroyed the wall between Jews and Gentiles that was erected by the law.47 That is, the wall that separated Jews and Gentiles and caused enmity
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