Another Paul Zahl Quote

From Grace in Practice:

The ground floor of Paul's theology is Romans 10:4: "Christ is the end of the law." This ground floor is held up by great bricks of atomic substance in the following words from the third chapter: "For 'no human being will be justified in [God's] sight' by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law [in the five books of Moses] and the prophets" (verses 20-21).

Paul taught what Jesus did. Given the total inability of the people it oppresses to effect their own freedom, the end of the law comes through the instrumentality of one man's sacrifice of substitution.

What profound, profound words from the Apostle Paul. And Dean Zahl is one of about four theologians to see, in full view, the vast ramifications of the Apostle's words here. Superstitious Stoicism be gone. The gospel is re-asserting itself. - DOB