This one is pivotal to understand. Many, like myself, were taught to read the Bible in context of Paul. We were taught his teachings first, then shown the rest of the Scripture. Such as my comparison though, this makes no sense. You don’t take someone looking to learn how to open a web browser and start searching the internet to a book about C++ programming.

Yes, I understand Paul was the emissary to the nations (the non-believers, the gentiles). That doesn’t change who he was. How many people do you know that are so in-depth on a subject that you may just be interested in that if you ask them a question their answer is 40ft. above your head? This is what Paul was doing in his letters. He was answering inquiries from these places he had formally been. He was quoting Scripture left and right (no chapters and verses back in those days), he was explaining how to take those Scriptures and apply it to the inquiries.

However, today, 2000 years later, we take those same letters and grab onto one word (“law”) and take it to mean one thing and one thing only. We take Paul’s letters and twist them into Lawlessness, i.e. Torahlessness. The exact thing Peter warns about. Peter, the guy that walked with our Messiah. The one who out of all those who wrote books in the New Testament would know what our Messiah meant on how to follow Him. The one who was first given charge of talking with gentiles.

How quickly we toss out Peter’s warning because “we know what Paul means. We have 2000 years of scholars and Bible teachers. They knew what Paul said.” Do they though? Which did they study first? Paul or the Torah? I’ve said it before and I will keep saying it until I am blue in the face. You can’t understand the back of the book unless you FIRST understand the front of the book.