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NT343 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Learn from New Testament and Pauline studies expert Dr. Lynn Cohick as she guides you through each chapter and theological concept in Ephesians, including salvation, the Trinity, and the church. She devotes additional time to exploring God’s vision for marriage, and the institution of slavery. She also explains various interpretive theories—like the new perspective on Paul—and how these theories...

The New Perspective analyzes Second Temple Judaism from the writings, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and concludes that in fact, Jews at the time of Jesus and at the time of Paul did not do the law to earn their salvation. Rather, they did the law in response to—out of gratitude to—God, who called them as His people. So Jews believe they were born into the family of God, and then they were responsible to act appropriately as a good member of the people of God. So the law was there to train them,