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\u201c\u2026 what the Torah, weakened by the flesh, could not do.\u201d So Romans 8:3. What could the Torah not do?
\nThe \u201cjust requirement of the Torah\u201d does not refer to human behavior of doing the Torah but to the final verdict the Torah will make regarding a person. The verdict so desired is \u201clife.\u201d The Torah, Paul says, could not pronounce life because it was weakened by the flesh. Its promise to bring life is frustrated by the flesh.
\nBut, God did bring life by sending the Son and by the Spirit.
\nHere\u2019s this thesis: \u201cGod condemned sin in the flesh of Jesus, so that the life the law offered could rightly be given to those led by the Spirit\u201d (578).
\nWright insists that the death of Jesus was more than a legal exchange, but a genuine condemnation of sin (and the flesh?). Sin is done away. It is done away with in Christ, who represented all of Israel and his whole people. Jesus is the \u201csin-offering\u201d for unwitting sins (Lev 5:7-8; 6:25) and therefore deals with the problem of the \u201cI\u201d in Romans 7.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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