I’m not clever about anything, lb. I simply cited scripture from the Apostle Paul. If you have a beef, take it up with him.
The penalty is one that can be described as “in themselves.”
That suggests “disease” to me....perhaps of many varieties; perhaps of an auto-immune or andro-immune variety.
I’m solidly trinitarian...nothing gnostic about me at all.
xzins' version: "The logic is: Since "love" does no harm to its neighbor, love fulfills the law."Aliester Crowley's version: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."
Matt 5:1717 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
NIV