THESIS 81: PEDAGOGY AND THE POWERS

The "elemental spirits" (stoicheia) which maintained a deceptively superficial order in the Old Covenant are unnecessary for Spirit-empowered believer-priests in the New Covenant.[280] Christians do not need their lives structured by the pedagogical legal institutions of the Old Covenant.[281]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

280. Galatians 4:3,9; Colossians 2:8,20; cf. Hebrews 5:12 - 6:8

281. Galatians 3:24 - 4:9; #26

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