Birds eye view of Pauls message

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Birds eye view of Pauls message

• There were about two thousand Christians in the
  year 60 C.E.
• By the year 100 only 7.500 Christians (recent
  estimates)?

2
Jesus is Lord

• Confession of Jesus significance and status
  (more important than Christ) Phil 29-10
• A term of respect
• Used by slaves to address their master
• Used for gods, including the God of Israel
• The title of the Roman emperor Caesar is Lord.
• Gal 328

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In Christ vision of the Christian life

• Life in Adam what kind of life is that?
• Romans 77-24 (15-17) also 512-21
• The problem is not that people are sinners
  because they do wrong things. Rather, people do
  wrong things because they are sinners (Virginia
  Wiles)?
• Life in Christ what does it signify?
• 2 Corinthians 517-18 Galatians 615

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In Christ

• From Life In Adam to Life in Christ
• Dying and rising (Galatians 219-20)?
• Romans 63-4 121-2
• The social vision of life in Christ.
• Solidarity one body (Gal 326-28)?
• Egalitarian vision (1 Cor 1117-24)?
• Romans 835.38-39

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Justification by grace

• Justification by works of the law
• OR
• Justification by grace through faith
• Galatians 216 310-11 221
• Romans 39. 19-20.23-25
• Romans 45 58.10

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Justification by grace

• Not about measuring up to secular or religious
  standards
• No performance principle
• Not about who goes to heaven, or how.
• Not about replacement of one requirement with
  another before works, and now faith.
• Not about privileged few
• A gift of God that transforms. Its fruits?
  Freedom, joy, peace, unity and love
• All are equal before God

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Christ Crucified

• 1 Cor 22 123 26-8
• Indictment of the imperial system of domination
  that executed Jesus.
• The wisdom of God versus the wisdom of the world
• The revelation of Gods love (Rom 58 104)?
• Symbol of the path of transformation