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For centuries Christians have referred to the New Testament for guidance on moral conduct. But did the writers of the New Testament themselves agree on such questions as divorce, political obedience, wealth and the toleration of other religions? And have their often inconsistent views any relevance today? In Ethics and the New Testament, the author applies strict critical standards to the...

not to reach the satisfaction of possessing a logically consistent code of behaviour. 5. Justification by faith. The terminology belongs to Paul, but he shares the general idea which it represents with other New Testament writers. In varying ways, they present the fruit of Christ’s work as owing all to God’s gracious initiative and nothing to man’s earning. Even the Gospel of Matthew, which sets more store than any other major New Testament writing by the punctilious observance of a detailed moral
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