Paul was not against the Law, the Torah, or Judaism in any way. What he was against was the Gentiles adopting Jewish customs. Because for Paul the problem of the Gentiles is too deep for the law to solve.

“Paul did not reject circumcision or the Law, but rejected their application to the gentiles.” “Just as no amount of legal diligence can turn a pig into an edible animal, so a gentile, no matter how law-abiding, can become a Jew.”

So why did Paul view the gentiles’ efforts to obey the Law as so problematic? Because for Paul the gentiles are ontologically different and cannot enter among the sons of Abraham by keeping the Law and share in the promises that God made to the sons of Abraham.

However, just as God created the differences between ethnic Jews and gentiles, God will also create the new kinship bond between gentiles and Jews through Abraham with the pneuma of Christ. The purpose of the law was not to ensure that gentiles became Jews. It is necessary to understand this.

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So how exactly did the ‘pneuma’ (spirit) of Jesus make the gentiles share in God’s promises to the Jews? It’s very simple, the change they undergo through pneuma includes them in Abraham’s family through a kind of “adoption”. A new race and Israel’s new bond is established with God. This bond is not an ordinary metaphor or something purely “spiritual”. For Paul, an event similar to gene therapy that changes the gentiles. “If you are Christ, you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.” [Galatians 3:29]

“Paul opposes the circumcision of non-Jews… because he does not think that circumcision has the power to bridge the gap in descent between Abraham and the Gentiles (non-Jews).”

In the early Christian community, there seems to have been agreement among the apostles that gentiles did not need to be circumcised. So this is not an idea that belongs only to Paul. The fact that the Greek Titus was not forced to undergo circumcision by the apostles in Jerusalem is one of the main examples of this situation.

“Paul saw nothing wrong with Judaism. For him, there was nothing lacking in Judaism.” “The key to unlocking Paul’s writings is to situate him within the larger Jewish world of his time.”

“The Torah was God’s answer to how humanity could be in relationship with God… Since the Gentiles could not follow it, God had to find a non-systematic way to bring the Gentiles into the family of God. This extrasystemic tool was Jesus Christ.”

It is clear from the description of Paul in Acts 21 that, for the author of this text, Paul insists that both the Jewish followers of the congregation and himself must obey the Law.

“[The author of Acts] deliberately portrays Paul as a Jewish follower of Jesus who kept the Law to the end, as someone who did not teach Jewish Christ-followers to abandon the law of Moses and did not oppose the Jewish law.”