Picture this. It's the Fourth of July.

You're savoring some baby back ribs your wife seasoned to perfection with her secret sauce—maple Dijon, cumin, chili powder, paprika, all the trimmings—which you expertly grilled to perfection. Your grill is sizzling with lots of succulent pork chops, the fat crackling and permeating slowly into the moist meat.

Already on your fourth Bud, you suddenly recall your college French. With the loudest smack of your lips, you exclaim headily: ça met l'eau à la bouche! Makes your mouth water, you explain to your bemused kids.

With that earthy, pungent aroma that's suffusing the hot summer air curling all its way up to the heavens, you suddenly find yourself face-to-face with unexpected guests in your backyard—Jesus and Paul! All you can blurt out is an effete "Cool. " Sheepishly, you hand each of them an ice-cold beer.

"Hold my beer," Jesus says to you brusquely. "So, you were chowing down on swine with these Gentiles back in the day, huh?" snorts a visibly disgusted Jesus, even as he gives Paul the side-eye.

"Hold up, Man. I had my Gentiles follow the Law.

I did!" Paul cringes. 'But Christians do swine,' you protest.

'So, we ain't Christian then?' quip both Jesus and Paul. This book reveals from Paul's genuine letters how and why Christians must keep kosher and obey the Law.

Imagine a world in which Christians observed Passover instead of Easter, kept Tabernacles in place of Christmas, and adhered to kosher laws strictly. Based solely on Paul's authentic letters, this carefully argued work proves that he did direct Gentile Christians to observe the Law, and he never purveyed a Law-free gospel at all.

This volume proposes that Paul strategically used both praise of but also disdain for the Law to subtly convey to his Gentile converts his covert instructions not to worship Caesar as Dominus et deus noster—our Lord and God—the imperial cult being mandated for all in Empire under penalty of death. This transformative work finally solves the Paul-and-the-Law puzzle that has perplexed scholars for two millennia.

If you've always held that Paul's gospel was a Law-free one, diving into this volume could turn your world topsy turvy —but are you up for the challenge? Read this work and your world is about to flip!. .