Tarsus And Maimonides

To Paul of Tarsus, the Law is less important compare to faith which he believes can bring salvation to everybody. According to Paul, all people are sinners. The way people become sinners not only because people have original sin but also for various reasons. For example,some people are sinner because they suppress the truth and believes on the things which is considered as wickedness. As the result their mind goes darken, their heart become impurity and they will do something dishonor either in body behavior or passion or both. Some people are sinner because they believe the Law only externally and they considered they are able to teach others about the Law but not to pay attention on if their behaviors are breaking the law which is kind blasphemy …show more content…
Because of both the difference of intellectual among individuals and sometimes people try to understand things through speculation which based on their opinion, the thing a person or a group of people can understand may not be apprehend by others. Due to the intellectual limitation, “people love and inclination to the thing which they are habitude” which blind people to apprehend the reality from either material/physical aspects or metaphysical like religion or both. If people meet something that they are unable to apprehend the right attitude according to Maimonides should be don’t just trust the thing nor to deny it and also don’t try to apprehend it even if it is out of your intellectual limitation, then you “achieve human perfection—peace”. The wrong attitude is to “ pronounce false assertion” toward the thing especially when it involves to God and it could be “the most deficient among deficient” . Human intellectual has limitation, to human God is too shine to human to understand. Change another ways to say God is too perfect to human to apprehend how perfect God is. When talk about God, Maimonides thought the best attitude to ordinary people is to keep silence, because the same idea when people meet the thing they couldn’t understand. People are incapable to fully understand about God so when they talking and thinking about God, they have to do it through their own opinion and speculation which the result will be deficient even people are praise God due to God is too perfect to people to praise. To Maimonides, as intellect limited human, the right attitude should be just follow what the Law and what Torah told us. People shouldn’t develop their own idea about God because to apprehend God goes far beyond people’s intelligence.