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The Paul-and-the-Law Encryption

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  • National Gallery Singapore

  • Paru le : 01/04/2024
It's the Fourth of July. You're savoring some baby back ribs your wife seasoned to perfection with her secret sauce-maple Dijon, cumin, chili powder,... > Lire la suite
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It's the Fourth of July. You're savoring some baby back ribs your wife seasoned to perfection with her secret sauce-maple Dijon, cumin, chili powder, paprika, all the trimmings-which you expertly grilled to perfection. Your grill is sizzling with lots of succulent pork chops, the fat crackling and permeating slowly into the moist meat. Already on your fourth Bud, you suddenly recall your college French.
With the loudest smack of your lips, you exclaim headily: ça met l'eau à la bouche! Makes your mouth water, you explain to your bemused kids. With that earthy, pungent aroma suffusing the hot summer air and curling its way from your grill all the way up to the heavens, you suddenly find yourself face-to-face with unexpected guests in your backyard-Jesus and Paul!  All you can blurt out is an effete "Cool." Sheepishly, you hand each of them an ice-cold beer.
"Hold my beer, " Jesus says to you brusquely. "So, you were chowing down on swine with these Gentiles back in the day, huh?" snorts a visibly disgusted Jesus, even as he gives Paul the side-eye. "Hold up, Man. I had my Gentiles follow the Law. I did!" Paul cringes. Imagine a world in which Christians observed Passover instead of Easter, kept Tabernacles in place of Christmas, and adhered to kosher laws strictly.
Based solely on Paul's authentic letters, this carefully argued work proves that he did direct Gentile Christians to observe the Law, and he never purveyed a Law-free gospel at all. This volume proposes that Paul strategically used both praise of but also disdain for the Law to subtly convey to his Gentile converts his covert instructions not to worship Caesar as Dominus et deus noster-our Lord and God-the imperial cult being mandated for all in Empire under penalty of death.
The Paul-and-the-Law puzzle, which has perplexed scholars for two millennia, is finally solved in this transformative work. If you thought Paul's was a Law-free gospel, diving into this volume will turn your world upside down.  Up for the challenge?

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Biographie de Andy C. Ho, PhD

Based in Singapore, the author is an independent scholar who commutes regularly to Bandarseri Coalfields, Selangor DE, Malaysia for work. Dr Ho helps selected PhD candidates of Asean citizenship who are working in the humanities or the social sciences in accredited Malaysian universities with  the developmental editing of their doctoral dissertations gratis. Dr Ho earned, among others, the MPPM at Yale; PhD at M.
I. T.; and MA (Bib. Lang.) at SEBTS.                         
 Andy C. Ho, PhD - The Paul-and-the-Law Encryption.
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