... interpretation of Paul What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Saul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997), 12–19 The same story can be told of the ever-changing interpretation ... manifestation of covenant (Mosaic, Davidic, New, etc.) over against the others, but rather the Creator’s purpose to make a people his own (beginning with the family of Abraham) for the sake of the ... to want to limit the meaning of justification to a declaration that a covenant membership has already come into being because of something else, namely, God’s call The act of justification has...