Faith better than Moses’ law; Spirit given through Christ; pedagogue to Christ

Preferring the justification in Christ to the law through Moses, how is Christ not God — the one through whom the law is abolished, since his faith surpasses it? And if Christ were merely a human being, how could faith in him have become better than the law?

“He who supplies the Spirit to you and works powers…” The law through Moses, though it is God’s law and “spoken through angels,” does not have the supply of the Holy Spirit, nor did it procure for anyone the power to work wonders. But through faith in Christ we gain both. How then is faith in him not better, if it has abolished the old law? And if we who live by faith are in a better state than those of the time when the law held, how is Christ not God?

“Before faith came we were kept under the law, shut up for the faith about to be revealed… that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian; for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

If the law was a guardian pointing to none other than Christ alone — even while teaching true knowledge of God — how is Christ not God? And if the law is abolished through faith in him and hands him the end of its guardianship, leading those under it to the highest good — and that final good is nothing other than knowledge of the true God — how could anyone doubt that he is God?