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Originally Posted by ACuriousFellow
... figure it all out together.
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At its best, that's what this forum has been for us, a place to figure it all out together. Occasionally, when disparate voices are woven together as one, it feels supernatural.
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Originally Posted by aron
...if we do so, we fulfil the Royal Law to love one another (James 2:8). When you read James' and Paul's writings in this light, it looks as though both are presenting the same gospel. It is God's love manifested.
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Back to my point of watching a new interpretation of 'God's economy' unfold in front of me, the most satisfying part was that James and Paul no longer were separated into 'natural' and 'high peak' components. They were saying the same thing: give to those who can't repay you, and you'll be rewarded in the resurrection of the righteous. "As ye do to these the least of my brethren, ye do to me."
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RecV hermeneutical corpus, one saw a weird dichotomy where the disciples were selling their stuff and giving to widows in the first few chapters of Acts, and the Jerusalem Pillars telling Paul to "remember the poor", and then you had the "high peak mystical stuff" of the indwelling Christ, the ''tea-ification'' and so forth. It was a NT that had been thematically riven asunder, with "high peak" sections contrasted with "low" or "natural concepts" sections. With my new reading, I had a unified whole in front of me. There's one gospel, one Lord, one faith, one baptism...
Others may discover different things as well, I'm giving an example of what may lay ahead, if one's willing to let go of what's behind.