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Paul's "born of woman, born under the law" (Gal 4:4), is arguably his way of recognizing that to be a human being is to be both of (or from) nature and under culture/society/history.

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As valid as Paul's reasoning to this statement may be from a Christian perspective, I'm obliged by my Christian faith as well by my experience and reason as a human being to recognize the possibility that adherents of other religious traditions may very well reason analogously -- and validly -- so as to vindicate, not Jesus Christ, but their explicit primal source of authority as "the end of the law." Certainly, any adherent of any of the axial religions oriented to effecting ultimate transfonnation transformation would need so to reason if she or he were to reason consistently with the most fundamental presuppositions of her or his religion.

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