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Paul's theology at its core is dealing with what Judaism replaced. Nevermind the title 'stoicheia tou kosmou' for the moment, he does show in Gal 3:17 that Judaism (as he was taught) voided and replaced the Promise (of the Gospel) with the Law. Meaning, all blessing promised was to arrive in and through the Law.
This is why even today Rabbi Dennis Prager teaches that Judaism had and has a trinity, and torah is one of the three.
From one end to the other, Paul teaches that the original Gospel preached to Abraham, about the blessing of justification from our sins through the Seed, is what was there in the ancient narrative all along.
Whatever place the Law occupied at that time was replaced, properly, by Christ, in the teaching Paul was commissioned by God. Or by the New Covenant. So you either know the apostolic letter to the Hebrews and refuse it, or you aren't aware that that is what it is saying.
In the west coast area of Little Asia in the 1st century (Ephesus, Colossae, Galatia [Modern area of Galatasary] etc), where Paul settled-in to minister for quite few years, there was a neo-Judaism. I say neo- because it claimed to have new visits from the very angels who delivered torah in Moses' time. They re-energized the Law (we are talking mostly ceremonial here) and called it the gospel. Paul in these letters spells out the true difference between that and the Gospel of Christ. It is exactly what the issue is about.
This is why even today Rabbi Dennis Prager teaches that Judaism had and has a trinity, and torah is one of the three.
From one end to the other, Paul teaches that the original Gospel preached to Abraham, about the blessing of justification from our sins through the Seed, is what was there in the ancient narrative all along.
Whatever place the Law occupied at that time was replaced, properly, by Christ, in the teaching Paul was commissioned by God. Or by the New Covenant. So you either know the apostolic letter to the Hebrews and refuse it, or you aren't aware that that is what it is saying.
In the west coast area of Little Asia in the 1st century (Ephesus, Colossae, Galatia [Modern area of Galatasary] etc), where Paul settled-in to minister for quite few years, there was a neo-Judaism. I say neo- because it claimed to have new visits from the very angels who delivered torah in Moses' time. They re-energized the Law (we are talking mostly ceremonial here) and called it the gospel. Paul in these letters spells out the true difference between that and the Gospel of Christ. It is exactly what the issue is about.