was: ‘You can attain to a right relationship with God by keeping meticulously all that the law lays down.’ But to say that is simply to say that there is no possibility of anyone ever attaining to a right relationship with God, for it is not possible to keep every commandment of the law. What then is the use of the law? It is that it makes people aware of sin. It is only when they know the law and try to satisfy it that people realize they can never satisfy it. The law is designed to show us our