Luke 19:1-10 relates a story that may illustrate this concept. (of salvation being oriented to this life.) Jesus visits the home of a wealthy tax collector named Zacchaeus, who declares that he will give half

9/30/06 One well-worn path through these thickets has been made by those who insist that the agitators are legalists: proto-Pelagians who are trying to persuade the Galatians to seek justification by performing good moral deeds. 

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels By: N. T. Wright ‘It has been slowly dawning on me over many years that there is a fundamental problem .. we have all forgotten

1/9/10 Gadpop on my posting old Atlantic article on  Jesus studies: I’ve found myself searching out what parts of my specific beliefs are based on things that are not really in Scripture, but are projected

1/8/2010 12:30:31 PM Pretty good article on Jesus studies from Atlantic, published 1986. “The most important corrective of historical scholarship has been to begin to alter the view of many Christians that basically Jesus is

Wright, in dealing with Jesus” work as work that brings forgiveness of sins, looks to the narratives of the Deuteronomic history, picked up by Isaiah and others, that sin entails exile, and forgiveness of sins