{"id":34753,"date":"2015-02-18T04:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=34753"},"modified":"2015-02-15T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T12:56:22","slug":"barclay-reviews-paul-faithfulness-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/barclay-reviews-paul-faithfulness-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclay reviews Paul and the Faithfulness of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Russian<\/a>Because you’re too busy to read the book, here is Dr. John M.G. Barclay review<\/a>\u00a0of Dr. N.T. Wright’s enormous\u00a0Paul and the Faithfulness of God<\/em><\/a> (kindle<\/a>) in the Scottish Journal of Theology<\/em>. \u00a0(H\/T Dr. Denny Burke<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Below\u00a0are some choice bits (emphases added). You’ll have to read the whole thing<\/a> to learn why there’s a Russian doll here.<\/p>\n

…the narrative of the Messiah Jesus, who takes on the role of Israel<\/strong>, where Israel had failed in its task and when sin had used the law to concentrate its force in this one place. As the representative Israelite (and as God himself<\/strong>, \u2018returning to Zion\u2019 in the person of<\/strong> his Son), Jesus fulfils the faithfulness that Israel was unable to accomplish, defeating sin and saving Israel while doing Israel\u2019s job of saving the nations, so that those \u2018in Christ\u2019 (that is, in \u2018the Messiah-and-his people\u2019, 17) can gain the virtues necessary to rule the world in the renewed creation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Comment: “as God himself.”<\/strong> Two interpretations:<\/p>\n