SaulToPaul 2
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"To struggle with God." So what? It makes no difference as to what Paul is saying in statements about the Promised Seed, or why Judaism replaced the Promise with the Law, or how everything promised to Israel was fulfilled in the resurrection.
There simply is no need for, and no indication of, another round of Judaism to come and need to operate. Not the way the NT rings with fulfillment of all things that were a shadow or mere copy, and calls the whole thing 'the weak and miserable elements of the world.'
Acts 26: the very thing the worshippers in the temple try night and day to see fulfilled is already in Christ. This is quite remarkable statement since 'the conservative part of Judaism at the temple disdained what the apocalyptic zealots and sicarii would do violently, but believed there would be a son of David event that would restore the worship system and land to what it was' --Cornfeld, archeologist, commenting on the continuous zealot revolt in 1st century Judea.
Who is Cornfield?