Guardrails...
From the very beginning, God's covenant with humanity was never about rules. It was about faith. When Abraham believed God, that belief was credited to him as righteousness — not his adherence to a law, because the law didn't exist yet. It came 430 years later. Paul's argument in Galatians 3 is that the law never replaced the original covenant of faith — it supplemented it. It came into existence because of transgressions, because people kept making decisions that drove their lives off a cliff, and God knew they needed something to keep them from the edge.
Think of a guardrail. Nobody builds…
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