Christians fulfilling the law? Here Sanders insists that there is an important distinction between the condition of entry into the people of God (by faith not by works of the law) and the type of behaviour required of those once established in the group (keeping or fulfilling the law). To these two different questions Paul gives two different answers; the relationship between faith and law changes when the topic addressed changes: ‘when Paul opposed “faith” to “law”, the question was what is required
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