[boatbums]

The only one doing any raging here is YOU, ES. I can imagine you stomping your feet and clenching your jaw every time you type out a nonresponse.

You just go right ahead and try to be justified by keeping the law. The Holy Spirit has a message for you:

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (Galatians 5:4-6)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“I can imagine you stomping your feet and clenching your jaw every time you type out a nonresponse.”

I can imagine pulling of the beard and tassels on fake 1st century garments.

No actual answers to questions though...

[Luircin]

Dude, rude Rood’s rude brood spewed lewd, crude, skewed attitude.

Ineptitude? Certitude!

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ I can imagine you stomping your feet and clenching your jaw every time you type out a nonresponse.” <<

Yes, we are well aware of your wild imagination, but reality is 180 degrees opposed to your fantasies.

The “law” Paul spoke of in Galatians 5 was the false law that Yeshua demolished in his ministry: The Takanot and Ma’Assim of the Pharisees.

An understanding of Phariseeism is an absolute necessity in understanding Paul’s letters. It was from the burden of that same Phariseeism from which he personally had escaped on the Damascus road that he was so intent on disabusing his Hebrew cousins.

It needs to be noted that the Pharisees never evangelized any gentiles but the Hebrew dispersion. They were quite bigoted in that regard.

They never tried to circumcise any Greeks or Celucid Turks, so when circumcision is mentioned, the congregation is obviously genetic Hebrew, and the “law” involved was of their own invention.

This is something that anyone can learn to look for in their reading, and thus gather a greater understanding.

YMMV!
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