31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. We are wrong to think that Paul is trashing the Jewish law so that it is to be jettisoned from the church altogether. His intention has never been to sever the church from its foundation in Jewish Scripture. Were he alive today, Paul would insist that the Old Testament has an indispensable place in the church. Without it, the concepts of sin, sacrifice, atonement, righteousness, and divine justice would have no
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