Thursday July 21 – Romans 3:1 to 3:18

What good is belonging, or being good? Don’t the hypocrisy and frailty of the religious make you just want to give it up?

It’s hard to tune out the supercessionist interpretations of Paul that claim Christianity replaced Jewish failure – but if we can only read Paul as a self-hating anti-Semite, post Holocaust, let’s quit.

Measure goodness by God’s righteousness, God’s faithfulness in Christ, God’s good creation, not by religious folk. God of Jews and Gentiles is faithful in Torah for Jews, in Christ for Gentiles.

What will you make of all the scripture, piled upon itself? Does it matter when Paul shifts from our ‘sins’ to the power of ‘sin’, from moral measure to cosmological myth and narrative? Read on!

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