Galatians 3:20-21  :

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

I am not certain I fully grasp what Paul means to say about the mediator here, but I do know this: We needed a mediator between ourselves and God the Father. Since God is three in one, it is confusing to us. He can be a mediator and one of the two sides. This is one of the mysteries of God that we can only accept. We really don’t understand it. Jesus made the way, as God the Son between us and God the Father. That is what we must accept as Christians. There are many things like that in the Bible. To God, our understanding is like children. We can’t understand it all yet. Some of it we may never understand because God’s ways are much higher than ours.

One might be tempted to think that the law is opposed to the promises of grace. It isn’t opposed because the law simply doesn’t work. It isn’t that the law was wrong, it’s just that man is so bad that it can’t work to make anyone righteous based on their own performance.

Paul also tells us that there was never a better law in the world than the law of the Bible when he says if it would have been possible for a law to make men right with God, then that law would have been the law of the Bible from Moses. It really doesn’t make sense for people to follow any other religion other than The Law of Moses. It is the best there is according to Paul. The main problem is that religion is just not going to work, no matter which one you follow.

The other religions have problems with their laws as well as problems with their followers. The Law of Moses has no problem. It just has no capable followers. So, in a way, all legal religions are “one” in that they don’t accomplish anything for the one attempting to follow them. If there would have been a way, it would have been through The Law of Moses because it is a perfect law from God Himself.

Galatians 3:20-21  :

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

I am not certain I fully grasp what Paul means to say about the mediator here, but I do know this: We needed a mediator between ourselves and God the Father. Since God is three in one, it is confusing to us. He can be a mediator and one of the two sides. This is one of the mysteries of God that we can only accept. We really don’t understand it. Jesus made the way, as God the Son between us and God the Father. That is what we must accept as Christians. There are many things like that in the Bible. To God, our understanding is like children. We can’t understand it all yet. Some of it we may never understand because God’s ways are much higher than ours.

One might be tempted to think that the law is opposed to the promises of grace. It isn’t opposed because the law simply doesn’t work. It isn’t that the law was wrong, it’s just that man is so bad that it can’t work to make anyone righteous based on their own performance.

Paul also tells us that there was never a better law in the world than the law of the Bible when he says if it would have been possible for a law to make men right with God, then that law would have been the law of the Bible from Moses. It really doesn’t make sense for people to follow any other religion other than The Law of Moses. It is the best there is according to Paul. The main problem is that religion is just not going to work, no matter which one you follow.

The other religions have problems with their laws as well as problems with their followers. The Law of Moses has no problem. It just has no capable followers. So, in a way, all legal religions are “one” in that they don’t accomplish anything for the one attempting to follow them. If there would have been a way, it would have been through The Law of Moses because it is a perfect law from God Himself.