CHRISTIANITY
FOR EVERYONE

Because Christianity became predominantly Gentile, it seemed as though God had abandoned Israel, and as though Gentiles had simply taken the place of Jews in God’s plan. But that was certainly not how Paul saw it! Of course he himself contrasted the old and the new … But he maintained to the end that God had been at work in the past; that the Law itself had been given by God, and that God had not abandoned his people. He saw continuity between his past beliefs and his present faith, as well as discontinuity. In stressing the new at the expense of the old, later Christians lost sight of something that our New Testament authors were maintaining.

Morna Hooker