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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: ideas
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:24:59 -0500


Liz Fried wrote:

> > From: Jeffrey B. Gibson
> > And all I am saying is that you seem to be confusing two distinct
> > issues.

> OK. Let me see if I understand you.
>
> The issue of
> > whether what Paul preached about justification by/ through
> > faith/faitfulness is his
> > own creation
> This is one issue, right?

Yes.

> is quite different from (a) whether or not Paul
> > *got* the particular
> > "doctrine" on the issue of justification that he preaches from
> > any human being
> The other issue, right?

One of two more.

> AND
> > from (b) his absolute certainty -- and, if Matera and Lyons are
> > correct, this is what
> > he really seems to be asserting in Gal. 1:11-12 -- *that* this
> > "doctrine", as opposed
> > to some other "doctrine on what justifies" is "of God".
>
> OK, what do you mean "of God?"
> I am equating "of God" with "not getting it from any human being."
> I am saying that Paul assumes that if he didn't get it from a human being,
> then he got it from God, and that it is "of God."
>

Now I see where the confusion arises. What I mean by Paul's claim that his
message
about justification by/ through the faith/faithfulness of Jesus is "of God"
is that it
is his way of saying that of all the ways being offered or touted by those
who like
Paul were concerned with the question of what God intended his people to do
show
themselves as his people and to bring Israel to its destiny, that the
faithfulness
shown by Jesus is what God wants. It, rather than the way of Zeal, as Paul
once
thought, was God's way.

Is this now clear?

Yours,

Jeffrey



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