bible - epistles
In the New Testament, the Pauline epistles play an important role in the development of Christianity and the Christian church. Arguably, the most important letters of Paul are that of the ones for the Christians of Rome. The letters to the Romans are slowly revealing the thought process of the apostle. In the letters to the Romans, the apostle discusses God's righteousness and forgiveness to all those who believed, the relationship between human, God, and the church, and "the question of the relation between the Gospel and the Law" (Wand 94). In Romans 7:1-25, Paul discusses to the Romans about the Law, referring to the Ten Commandments. What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died; the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me
Knox, John. Life In Christ Jesus. Connecticut: Seabury, 1961. this demonic power is for Paul as certainty an element in our salvation as is release from sin and death" (Knox 59). says "So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and Fitzmeyer, Joseph A. Pauline Theology: A Brief Stretch. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1967. in giving it-----whereas when he speaks of it as evil, he is looking at it from the point of the human being who finds himself inexorably obligated to it and at the same time hopelessly incapable of fulfilling it (Knox 61). In conclusion, the law is not evil but, in fact, good. God created law to bring about order. Those who break the law are sinners. The evil lies within human nature. The temptation of breaking the law is the evil that lurks within our inner selves. "In a word, when Paul speaks of the law more objectively he tends to see it as good: when he speaks of it more existentially, he tends to see it as evil" (Knox 61).
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