“Question & Answer”

Question:
What is Paul’s attitude toward the Jewish Law?
Answer:

Difference with Paul’s Jewish heritage and his encounter with the resurrected Christ led to an understanding that keeping the Law was impossible. Thoroughly acquainted with it from his youth, Paul learned that efforts to keep it left him with a sense of uselessness: Paul speaks in Romans 7:24 NIV: “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ” Paul reconciles Jewish law with Christian faith by using Jesus’ words ““A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34). He states that this single commandment is a fulfillment of the entire Jewish law (Galatians 5:1–15) focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law.