In Judaism, the law is a blessing, a good gift, a source of life. But what about the Jewish law for Christians? What is the force of these ancient commandments now that the new event of Jesus Christ has occurred? This was an important and hotly debated question in many places in the early church (see, as examples, the argument over this problem in Acts 15, and also Paul’s wrestling with the matter in Galatians). There are two obvious, and diametrically opposed, resolutions to this question: one,