Religion is pervasive in the world. Think about how many times you’ve heard someone say they do more good than bad, so they hope they will make it to heaven. Think about how people talk about karma, the idea that if someone does good things, good things will happen to them, and if they do bad things, well, payback is coming. That appeals to our temporal idea of earthly justice, but it isn’t the Gospel.

All this begs the question asked in Galatians 3:19: “Why the Law then?”