Corpus-Paul

["Charles Skallerud" <karolus AT wf.net>]

This is one of those permanent puzzles.  In a few years the new perspective will become the old perspective and the cycle will start over.  I wonder if it is helpful to think of the Law as the law of love.  There is a sense in which human beings do not just fail to love God and others perfectly; in a way they fail entirely without the spirit of God.  Maybe Paul is thinking of this aspect of the Law along with the rest.

 

Charles Skallerud

 

----- Original Message -----

From: moon-ryul jung <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>

To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 8:57 AM

Subject: [corpus-paul] Gal 3:10-13

> Dear co-interpreters,
> 
> The interpretation of Gal 3:10-13, in particular, why those of the Law 
are 
> under curse,  must consider whether there is an implied 
assumption
> of human inability to obey the law. Scholars in the
> 
Reformed tradition often accept the implied assumption. But there have been 
> challenges againt that interpretation. That is, in Judaism
> 
there is no notion that human beings should obey the law perfectly to be 
> accepted by God, and that they are unable to obey the law.
> Some 
new interpretations were suggested by scholars who are inclined 
> to the 
"New Perspective on Paul", e.g. by Sanders, Dunn, Howard, and 
> 
Wright.
> 
> But I am not satisfied with any of these proposals. Are 
there any new
> ones?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
Moon
> 
> Moon R. Jung
> Associate Professor
> Dept of 
computer science
> Soongsil University,'
> Seoul, Korea
> 
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