as the gospel of an ethic based on love rather than law, as the gospel of freedom from perceived guilt about the past, as the gospel of shared community, as the gospel of joyful service. All these can be promoted on the basis of human argument. And all these are aspects of Paul’s gospel. However, Paul’s gospel is ultimately a divine call on human life. Otherwise, in Paul’s eyes, it would be nothing. Whether we translate the end of 1:12 as “revelation of Jesus Christ” or “revelation from Jesus Christ,”