Teofrastus
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What Jesus means is that there will be no revision of the law, that is, we will not continue along the legalistic path (Matt. 5:18). Instead, there will be a radical break that only faith can achieve. Paul tries to explain this. Only in faith is the fulfilment of the law, and that's why the law still remains to be fulfilled by a radical break with the old model of innocence and guilt. Instead of maintaining 'meaning' in our worldly life, by upholding our innocence and blaming the 'guilty,' we shall embrace faith and identify with sinful mankind. The saying "No one is good, except God alone" implies that solidarity is substituted for innocence and guilt (Mark 10:18). Jesus often talks in a way that makes people draw the opposite conclusion than what he actually means, "in order that 'they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven'” (Mark 4:11-12). His point is that the sinner must reach rock bottom before he can be forgiven, and that's why he speaks in a way that lets the sinner misunderstand his message. Sinners shall continue on the path of innocence and sink lower and lower. This is the only way out for those people that cannot see the radical break that faith entails.
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