Paul and the Law, Keeping the Commandments of God Peter Barnes Evangelical Theological College of Wales

Evangelical Theological College of Wales

Vaughan Roberts

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Paul and the Law, Keeping the Commandments of God Peter Barnes Evangelical Theological College of WalesFor neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God' (1 Cor. 7: 19). The apostle Paul's relationship to the Law of Moses is notoriously complex and much studied. Difficulties begin with questions of definition (of the extent of Paul's corpus and the meanings of 'the law') and are exacerbated by numerous problems of interpretation of the key texts. Major positions are entrenched, yet none of them seems