{"id":112,"date":"2018-04-18T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/?p=112"},"modified":"2018-04-19T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:41:47","slug":"st-paul-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/2018\/04\/18\/st-paul-and-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul and the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/St-Paul-ephesus-260x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" \/>As a conclusion to this series on the ongoing importance of the commandments of the Law in the New Testament and in the Orthodox Church, it is important to address directly St. Paul&#8217;s understanding of the Law.\u00a0 It has become a commonplace since Martin Luther to read St. Paul as setting out a dichotomy between the Law on one hand, and the gospel which he proclaimed on the other.\u00a0 This distinction has been read forward into the other New Testament writers, and also backward into the Old Testament.\u00a0 That which is identified as Law, then, in the scriptures, or at least, portions of it, is allowed a continuing role in the life of the church and of Christians but that role is restricted, and it is at all points superseded by that which is identified as Gospel.\u00a0 The difficulty with this approach is that such a dichotomy is not actually found in St. Paul&#8217;s treatment of the Law.\u00a0 In fact, it requires ignoring a wealth of positive statements about the Law in the Pauline writings.\u00a0 The development of this idea by Luther was more directly related to his own personal experience in the 16th century than to St. Paul and his writings understood in and of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of this misreading of St. Paul begins with the idea that he is a &#8220;convert&#8221;.\u00a0 His experience on the Damascus road is off-handedly referred to as his conversion in conversation nearly universally.\u00a0 There is difficulty with this characterization at the level of simple logic.\u00a0 For one to &#8220;convert&#8221; one must leave one religion and join another, and it is a bare fact of history that in 35 AD, Judaism and Christianity were not two separate religions.\u00a0 More importantly, &#8220;conversion&#8221; is not the way in which the Damascus road experience is presented in scripture, nor the way in which St. Paul speaks of it after the fact.\u00a0 This experience is related twice in the book of Acts, in chapter 9 and in chapter 22 when St. Paul recounts it in a speech.\u00a0 It is also referenced in several Pauline epistles, notably in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and Galatians 1:11-16.\u00a0 St. Paul here, and in his own recounting, speaks of the event as a vision of the risen Christ, as Christ revealing himself to him.\u00a0 Secondly, he speaks of it as having received a call from Christ as God to proclaim the gospel to the gentiles.\u00a0 This pattern of vision and calling has several clear parallels in the Old Testament in the calling of the prophets.\u00a0 In Isaiah 6, Isaiah is called to be a prophet after receiving a vision of God seated upon his throne.\u00a0 In the vision, God needs someone to send to his people Israel to pronounce judgment against them, and Isaiah accepts this calling.\u00a0 The verb used in the Greek text of Isaiah 6:8 by both God and Isaiah is &#8216;apostello&#8217;, from which the noun form, apostle, is derived.\u00a0 St. Paul identifies his received charge after his vision as being the apostle, the one sent, to the Gentiles to proclaim the gospel (cf. Rom 11:13).\u00a0 In the calling of Jeremiah, God says to Jeremiah that he knew him from his mother&#8217;s womb, and appointed him to be a prophet, in the Greek, &#8216;eis ethne&#8217;, unto the nations or unto the gentiles (Jer 1:5).\u00a0 Likewise, in Galatians 1:15-16, St. Paul uses nearly identical language to describe himself as having been set apart from his mother&#8217;s womb, and called to proclaim the gospel &#8216;en tois ethnesin&#8217;, among the nations or among the gentiles.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul, therefore, does not see himself as someone who has left &#8216;Judaism&#8217; or the religion of his fathers, but as one who was called, despite his deeply sinful past persecuting Christ and his church, to a particular service, seen as a continuation of the role of the prophets in the old covenant.\u00a0 He sees himself as continuing in the same religious tradition, but which tradition is entering into the era of its fulfillment in the coming, death, and resurrection of the Messiah, his ascension and enthronement, the pouring out of the Spirit on all flesh, and the gentiles coming to worship the true God.\u00a0 Nowhere in this understanding is the Law abrogated.\u00a0 In fact, the charge that he was trying to do away with the law is one that dogged St. Paul all of his life, and against which he defended himself passionately (cf. Acts 21:20-21).\u00a0 In the passages in his epistles which are most often used to try to intuit some antipathy to the Law on the part of St. Paul, he himself refutes this charge, declaring that he is not attempting to nullify the Law in favor of faith, but to establish the Law (Rom 3:31).<\/p>\n<p>Often, St. Paul&#8217;s controversy with his opponents, especially in Galatians and Romans, is characterized as his opponents&#8217; insistence on the continued following of the Law, and the Apostle&#8217;s proclamation of freedom from it.\u00a0 The latter is clearly not true, but neither is the former.\u00a0 In this controversy, St. Paul focuses on the issue of justification.\u00a0 Before the judgment seat of Christ, there will be the righteous, at his right hand, who will enter into eternal life, and the wicked, on his left, who will enter into eternal condemnation.\u00a0 Those on the right hand are those who are justified.\u00a0 St. Paul&#8217;s opponents are placing their faith, their confidence, regarding their identity as the righteous in the wrong place.\u00a0 They believe that they are the righteous because they are Abraham&#8217;s descendants, the children of Israel.\u00a0 St. Paul points out that Ishmael (Gal 4:21-25) and Esau (Rom 9:6-13) were descendants of Abraham as well.\u00a0 Gentiles, obviously, could not change their parentage, but they could become &#8216;children of Abraham&#8217; by being circumcised.\u00a0 St. Paul points out in response that if one is putting one&#8217;s confidence in circumcision, that circumcision by itself is not enough.\u00a0 The Law must be kept in its entirety (Gal 5:3), because it is the doer of the Law who is justified (Rom 2:13).\u00a0 This adoption, by circumcision, into the earthly family of Abraham therefore does not represent freedom, but self-imposed slavery to sin and death for all who try to keep the whole Law but fail, and come under its curse, ending up numbered among the condemned not the justified. \u00a0Christ has set us free from this curse of the Law under which we had come due to our disobedience (Gal 3:13). Christ is the singular seed who is the recipient of the promises made to Abraham (Gal 3:16), and through him we are adopted into the family of God, becoming his sons (Gal 4:7).<\/p>\n<p>The contrast established by St. Paul is not then one of gospel to law, but of what he calls the &#8216;Law of the Spirit&#8217; which comes through Christ, as opposed to the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2).\u00a0 The great promise which St. Paul sees fulfilled during his ministry is that of the new covenant.\u00a0 This covenant, while different than that at Sinai, is not one in which the Law is no more.\u00a0 Rather, it is one in which the Law will be written upon a person&#8217;s heart, and will exist within them (Jer 31:33).\u00a0 It is a time when all will know the Lord and sins will be forgiven (Jer 31:34).\u00a0 This will come to pass through the Spirit being poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28).\u00a0 In this era, it was prophesied that by God placing his Spirit within his people, they would keep his commandments (Ezek 36:26-32).\u00a0 Having been set free from sin, St. Paul draws on this language of the Spirit keeping the righteous requirements of the Law within us (Rom 8:3-4).\u00a0 We, in our flesh, proved too weak and rebellious to follow the truth of God&#8217;s Law, and so now, Christ having delivered us from condemnation (Rom 8:1), he works in us to bring about Christ&#8217;s own righteousness.\u00a0 The Spirit produces fruit in our lives which even supersede the demands of the Law (Gal 5:22-23).\u00a0 We live out our lives in accord with the commandments of God in the Spirit because God is working within us the work of salvation (Phil 2:12-13), and it is a work which he will bring to completion (Phil 1:6).\u00a0 And so, at the end of this age, at Christ&#8217;s judgment seat, he will look upon his works, and declare that they are good (Gen 1:31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a conclusion to this series on the ongoing importance of the commandments of the Law in the New Testament and in the Orthodox Church, it is important to address directly St. Paul&#8217;s understanding of the Law.\u00a0 It has become a commonplace since Martin Luther to read St. Paul as setting out a dichotomy between the Law on one hand, and the gospel which he proclaimed on the other.\u00a0 This distinction has been read forward into the other New Testament writers, and also backward into the Old Testament.\u00a0 That which is identified as Law, then, in the scriptures, or at least, portions of it, is allowed a continuing role in the life of the church and of Christians but that\u2026 <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/2018\/04\/18\/st-paul-and-the-law\/\">  <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<title>St. Paul and the Law - The Whole Counsel Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/2018\/04\/18\/st-paul-and-the-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St. Paul and the Law - The Whole Counsel Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a conclusion to this series on the ongoing importance of the commandments of the Law in the New Testament and in the Orthodox Church, it is important to address directly St. Paul&#8217;s understanding of the Law.\u00a0 It has become a commonplace since Martin Luther to read St. Paul as setting out a dichotomy between the Law on one hand, and the gospel which he proclaimed on the other.\u00a0 This distinction has been read forward into the other New Testament writers, and also backward into the Old Testament.\u00a0 That which is identified as Law, then, in the scriptures, or at least, portions of it, is allowed a continuing role in the life of the church and of Christians but that\u2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/2018\/04\/18\/st-paul-and-the-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Whole Counsel Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-18T17:49:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-04-19T17:41:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/wholecounsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/04\/St-Paul-ephesus-260x200.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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