that law...because they did not pursue it by faith" (Rom.
9:31). "...not knowing about God's righteousness, and
seeking to establish their own, they did not subject
themselves to the righteousness of God" (Rom. 10:3). "Man
is not made righteous by the works of the Law.." (Gal.
2:16). Paul denies that the Law, functionally and
religiously employed as a morality, could ever effect God's
intent to express His goodness and righteousness and
holiness in man's behavior. The "letter kills" Paul wrote (II
Cor. 3:6). However, the rabbinic moralists of the Jewish
religion continued to carefully craft definitions of precise
performance for every eventuality in the legalistic minutia
of the Talmudic Mishnah. Judeo-Christian religion today
still calculates the moralistic regulatory purpose of the
Law.
Outside of the Hebrew context, the philosophers of the
world attempted to develop and dictate moralities for
mankind. The oriental philosophers such as Buddha, Lao
Tzu and Confucius, as well as Greek philosophers such as
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, engaged in this process. All
of them, in their own way, attempted to classify moralistic
virtues in self-determined categories of good and evil,
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