against us.” The legal basis of the record of sins was “the binding statutes, regulations” (tois dogmasin) but what God destroyed on the Cross was not the legal ground (law) for our entanglement into sin, but the written record of our sins. By destroying the evidence of our sins, God has also “disarmed the principalities and powers” (2:15) since it is no longer possible for them to accuse those who have been forgiven. There is no reason, therefore, for Christians to feel incomplete and to seek the
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