Paul taught that believer baptism is an event where a person ceases from a context of keeping the Law being the ultimate challenge, into a new state of unity with Jesus who has ceased from this by his death and is alive as an immortal to whom the Law challenge no longer applies. Unity with him introduces the one baptised to a life dominated now by unity with Jesus rather than the Law. Yet in Jesus we still find the ten commandments as we see in 1. Revelation revealed by him since his resurrection and honouring keeping of the commandments and 2. the gospel teachings of Paul revealed to him by the risen Jesus which still include the ten commandments. These commandments are not a way to be justified but are a means to eternal life, as Jesus taught. Unity with Jesus has unity to his teachings as a supreme aspect. Not legalistic adherence to keeping laws, but God’s commandments as the moral compass for eternal life, in a context of the body of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
