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Psalm 119:60 says, "I will not delay to obey your commands." WL would tell us that nobody could keep that word. To which I respond, "In whom, then, should we believe?" If nobody could keep the commands of God, where then is our hope?

No; the hope of the Christian believer is in Jesus Christ, born of a woman, born under law, who though in the flesh of sin, did not hesitate to obey the Father's will, all the way up to and including the death of the cross. This is our faith, our hope.

I don't know what gospel WL preached if he ignored the incarnated Word to that degree. Maybe he was, ironically, pushing a gospel of self-reliance: first he showed us the OT prophet unable to fulfill the word, then he declared that the "NT believer" could do it, according to "God's New Testament economy". In the middle of the narrative, however, was a gaping hole, where Jesus Christ was supposed to be seen. For all the talk about incarnation, and about the "humanity of Jesus", when given the opportunity to see a very human Jesus portrayed in the OT text, WL passed.