Is it always the fate of iconoclasts that they in turn should become the new icons?

Paul follows the lead of Jesus in declaring that being god’s children does not depend upon either Jewishness or following Mosaic Law. Jesus is quite clear that living out lives of love is what sonship is. Paul places the legitimising break with the past in our participation in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Then declares that we have already become a part of this new creation "in Christ".

In essence I think the identification of a supposedly orthodox understanding of Paul and Jesus with ‘real’ Christianity is a very original and perhaps fatal mistake. Jesus certainly did call for discipleship, but there is no doubt that that discipleship did not entail simply replacing one orthodoxy with another.

On the whole then I agree with John Doyle, I only wonder whether we have gone quite far enough? It would seem to me that the real heretics are precisely those that desire now a new law (orthodoxy) to replace the old one.

Live to serve : Serve to live