ABSTRACT
For Jews and Muslims, the law of God is the light of day, an instrument for experiencing grace. Moses was the proto-prophet of law, hence the Quran's repeated narration of his story. In 6.14-15, Paul exalts the cross of Christ above the Law of Moses. As a consequence of the Christ-revolution, Paul had a revelation: the law, once the enabler of righteous living, was at best the tutor for salvation, not a means to it, and at worst an enemy of salvation. The law and the flesh persecute the spirit. Judaism, allegorically represented by Hagar and her son, along with the Torah and the pre-Christian Paul, constitute a trinity of persecutors. The victims are Sarah and Isaac, and the church, the new Israel of God. Christians typically regard the primary scripture, the First Testament, as being augmented and fulfilled, not refuted or contradicted, by the addition of the Second Testament.
