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What is the significance of Paul's speaking, as he does, of "the law of Christ" (Gal 6:2) or "the law of the Spirit" (Rom 8:2)?

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And yet there seems to me to be more to Paul's meaning than this – -- and, in other contexts, Bultmann himself says or clearly implies as much. Thus, for one thing, there are Paul's concepts of "the obedience of faith" (Rom 1:5) and of "the law of faith" (Rom 3:27), which are rather less obviously "paradoxical," in that faith can be understood only as obedience to God's demand even as it must be understood as acceptance of God's gift. And, beyond any question, Bultmann so understands it.

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