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Originally Posted by testallthings
Do you really believe what you said in your last sentence?
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I don't know about awareness (although I bet I can guess) but I believe it. Not because I think Paul said things incorrectly. But I think we read Paul as if he is the source, therefore do not consider how it is seen through the lens of the gospel as presented by Jesus. Instead we too often read Paul incorrectly, then layer that analysis over the gospel thereby making it into something else.
Lee was a master at this. But at somewhat lesser levels, many Evangelical teachings do some of the same things. We read how it is "by faith alone" and layer that over everything so that we can ignore Jesus' clear command to obey and do. Just one example.
We need to read the gospels, and use that as the lens whereby we read and understand Paul and the others. If Jesus said that how we teach and act under an expanded version of the law has an effect on our place in the kingdom, then to read Paul to say that there is no more law is to misread Paul. Or to read Paul to say that we don't need to try to be righteous (it will just fall on us after we spend enough time sitting around soaking up spiritual stuff) is an error. It is contradictory to the source — God — who said otherwise. Unless your righteousness exceed that of . . . . That requires doing, not soaking.