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Paul is no less bold in following Jesus’ approach to scripture. When he says in Galatians 5:6 that ‘circumcision counts for nothing; the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love’, he is not tweaking Levitical laws, where circumcision is absolutely important. He is correcting them.
Jesus and Paul model a new way – a Christian way – of approaching the scriptures. Our first 2,000 years of Christian history have seen us steer shy of actually following that way. We seem to have preferred ‘the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees’, even though Jesus called us to surpass their approach.
More here: http://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2015/January-2015/The-Progressive-Jesus-didn-t-treat-Scripture-as-infallible-nor-should-we
If you want to see how this approach to the Bible works out in practice, check out We Make the Road by Walking, which is available as a book, an e-book, and an audio book.
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