Paul didn’t wake up one morning with radical thoughts about the Law out of nowhere. He was awakened to the Spirit of Christ and the conviction that Jesus, because he defeated death, had something for both Gentiles and Jews, with neither being superior to the other. This has proved to be nothing short of an evolutionary innovation in the Jewish tradition, and without it Christianity, which began its life as a Jewish sect, would not have become an essentially Gentile phenomenon already by the second century CE.
