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The Victory of Christ

by Phillip Ross • September 9, 2009 • 1 Comment

Rodney Stark has written another great book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Random House, 2005). In recent years, a number of important books have offered a counter-narrative to the version of European…

Financial Crisis Stimulus Hindsight

by Phillip Ross • August 17, 2009 • 0 Comments

In hindsight, I’d like to offer an alternative analysis of the Great Recession (2008/2009): Real estate tycoons created a way to sell swamp land across the world. They bundled the swamp into the lawns of regular homes, which they sold…

Health Care/Insurance Reform

by Phillip Ross • August 15, 2009 • 1 Comment

Why should government or businesses provide health care or retirement benefits at all? Think of Social Security: it began after the Great Depression as a way to provide for people so that such a situation would not happen again. People…

How Socialism Works

by Phillip Ross • August 13, 2009 • 0 Comments

Professor Is A Genius An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that…

Tribe Mentality

by Phillip Ross • August 6, 2009 • 1 Comment

According to Miriam Keith in a recent article in the Marietta Times, “Tribe Helps Overcome Depression,” which follows the lead of Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry in their book, Creating Optimism: A Proven Seven-Step Program for Overcoming Depression, a loyal…

Constitutional Clarity

by Phillip Ross • July 14, 2009 • 4 Comments

I have been reading The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen. It is the curriculum for the current 9/12 Project groups that have sprung up across the nation. From another source, I found…

Moral Decrepitude

by Phillip Ross • July 11, 2009 • 1 Comment

How do we get out of the mess of moral decay of American society generally, and in Marietta specifically? (Note: Marietta, OH, has recently been wracked with a sex & drugs crisis that has cost the jobs of several firemen…

Damanable Lies

by Phillip Ross • June 16, 2009 • 1 Comment

People can copulate, but only God can create life.

What in the world is Ross doing?

by Phillip Ross • April 6, 2009 • 0 Comments

If you appreciate what this ministry is about, you can help. If you “see” the concern, if you “get it,” you not only can help but you must. This sin-soaked world needs you to help.

The Madoff Scandal

by Phillip Ross • March 12, 2009 • 0 Comments

So, Bernard Madoff pled guilty and will go to jail. Not only do we taxpayers have to pay for his crime, but now we have to pay for his food and rent for the rest of his life. But that’s…

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Christ came to free people from bondage to the law of Moses, but not through the absolute abandonment of all law. Paulâ€™s training as a Pharisee made him the most biblically competent of the Apostles, which is reflected by his dominance as an author of the New Testament letters. My intention here is not to impose a foreign metanarrative upon the text, but to reveal the actual metanarrative of the Old Testament in the light of Christ as Paul presented it to the Galatians. That metanarrative was not what he had been taught as a Pharisee, nor what they had been taught by the Temple establishment. It was shockingly different, but it made undeniable sense of the Old Testament. The Temple establishment version was full of ancient mystery and symbolism that was difficult to understand, and cast the role of Israel as the hero of the story. Paulâ€™s version, on the other hand, was clear, simple, and practicalâ€”though it required the abandonment of much well-established Temple superstition. Paulâ€™s version cast the role of Jesus Christ as the hero.

While understanding the story of the Old Testament in the light of Christ is not difficult, abandoning our own false presuppositions about it requires some personal tenacity. Jesus continues to challenge our ideas about who we are and our role in history, Godâ€™s story. The story that Paul grew up with was the story about the importance and purity of the Temple. But the story that he learned from Jesus was about the corruption and failure of the Temple. Similarly, Christians today are Sunday-schooled in the importance of the institutional church, but the actual ongoing story in the light of Christ is about the corruption and failure of the church as an institution. In the following pages you will see that this story has played out over and again throughout history because of the pertinacity of sin.

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