More from Galatians

From St. Paul in the letter to the Galatians 2:20: If justice is available through the law, then Christ died to no purpose! St. Paul makes an emphatic point that faith in a resurrected Christ makes discussion over the importance of living in accordance with Jewish law a moot point. Earlier in the same chapter he takes to take no less an important person than Peter. When you consider the role that Peter played in the whole pageant of Christ from the very beginning of Christ’s public ministry, Paul clearly believed that Jesus came to fulfill the law and not to uphold it. This point is important to us because Jesus made clear that God was much more interested in what was in our hearts than but what rules we followed. Prior to the time of Christ you could expect to find favor with God by following his rules regardless of what motivated you. We are now judged by whether we love and honor God but loving one another not by whether we are circumcised or follow certain dietary laws. I have to say that is hard to imagine ANYONE taking on Peter the way Paul did without any apparent ill effect.