An Unfruitful Marriage

May 8, 2022    Andrew Severinsen

In chapter 7, Paul turns his attention to Messianic Jews in Rome who are still clinging to their identity in Moses and advocating the Mosaic Law. Paul wants to persuade these Jewish Christians to not foist the Mosaic Law upon the Gentile Christians as a means of constraining their behavior. The Law is both inappropriate and inadequate for such constraint.