Recent content by R. Hamilton Gray

The whole Council of Scripture is useful. In one sense you are quite correct in that we are not under the law in the sense that we do not obey out of our hope for salvation in good behavior. We are saved by Grace however because the Law is still there. If there were no Law, we would need no...

Clearly he is adhering to one understanding of the Law that was in conflict with another view of the Law. Paul was clearly teaching Gentile believers to be Gentile believers and Jewish Believers to be Jewish Believers. He was rebuking the teachings that the only way to serve God was to...

Paul and James, in the second half of Acts 21 seems to support the Messianic position pretty squarely.

If that were so, why to people misunderstand it so profoundly? It is about Judaizing Gentiles, not Jewishness. It is about TRUSTING IN the Law and Circumcision, not about them in themselves. Paul circumcised Timothy, even as he refused to circumcise Titus. Was he making Christ of no use to...

When you undertake a prolonged study of this issue, you will find that the portions of scripture used against Messianic Judaism are really against Gentiles being forced to follow Judaism as a matter of course. The problem was Judaizing, not Jewishness. How interesting it is now that we have...