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Finally, Schoeps observes that the contradiction between earning salvation by faith and earning it by works, between justification by the Law and by the Gospel is "as common as it is false." It only remains to add that Paul's assertion (in Romans 10:4) that Christ is the end of the law, contradicts Matthew 5:17-19 where Jesus says: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil... Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." How can.. (the theologian) talk, then, of "the failure of experiments with commandments and laws"?
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