I was at McDonalds once, carrying my (ESV Study) Bible. A man sitting by himself noticed and asked if he could ask a question. We ended up getting into a discussion about the law, his argument was that since many so called Christians (wrongly) disregard the law (a.k.a. antinomianism), we are required to keep the law (in order to be saved). This is not quite true. Righteousness is imputed 100% from Christ, and after being regenerated, while not being required to keep the law to be saved, the Christian loves to obey God’s law because it please Him.

The man’s name was Dalet (D in Hebrew – it looks like this: ד). I had to leave because I was getting a lift with someone, and left saying: “It’s just wrong, I’m sorry that I can’t explain it more because I have to go” (perhaps not those exact words, but that general idea). When I got home, I was thinking about Galatians 2:21, and I was inspired to create this wallpaper; some have said that blue symbolizes the Law, and red the blood of Christ. The purple is what happens when someone foolishly tries to fuse them both for salvation. Good works (i.e. obedience to the law) are the result of salvation, not the cause.

The book of Galatians is the Apostle Paul’s writing to those who desert the grace of Christ to be under the law again. 2:21 is a very strong assertion, saying that if righteousness (a right standing before God) could be gained or achieved through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. It can only ever be Christ + nothing for salvation.

Just a note: I used the NIV of Gal 2:21 for this wallpaper (I don’t know why). The ESV is by far a superior translation.

Note: I designed this wallpaper at my monitor's native resolution, which is 1920x1200. I am working on uploading multiple (lower) resolutions of the image, but for now beware that it is very large, and may not look as good simply scaled down.