This issue about NOT making distinctions between the ways and means of living under nomos should be critical to a church that wants to be clear about what the unique Christian Gospel is; and to form an exclusive bond to what Christ calls us to and that is to get the message out about his death and resurrection for sinners (who btw have no hope as they are by themselves or within their political caucuses as they are) and the value that this Gospel inherently contains for others in the divine relationship it establishes. The Gospel is contradistinctive to nomological fairness (and even if there was such as thing as nomological forgiveness it would work as it is defined and understood by the IRS! ie. there is no such animal as defined under Christ's type of forgiveness) in that Someone who no longer is imprisoned to the fate of death now lives to change others because His death was for others and His death has exchanged out our death for His life (He has been raised, right?) What all this means is that if we do not make distinctions between fairness which inherently places us in a position of making claims for ourselves ie. self-interest issues and that btw is an addiional contradistinction to the unique Christian Gospel, the unique Gospel has no place to express its treasure chest of goodies! The unique-ness about the Gospel is that Jesus Christ has taken your sin, indebtedness, and death and has put it to death right within His death. By doing so a proverbial "I" has been united to a biography of One over whom death no longer has dominion. This should be extremely important (and joyful!) enough for the Church that it would move it to cast off the ways and means of prioritizing political issues for the sake of announcing to others what has arrived in terms of who this living Jesus is for others. In the faith relationship with Christ we dimly see the coming great distinction between what it means to live under the ways and means of fairness (the law, yes God's law: God's nomos) vs. the ways and means of the One who has shown us ungratefuls great mercy through his own death for others a product of unfairness in parte, in that his unjust suffering and death actually changed sinners in His forgiveness of their sins. Some expressions of the Body of Christ (I'm thinking of the ELCA, esp. its national public voice) need to get out of the business of social advocacy or change its official agenda of theory and practice on it and become more intentional about what God has specifically commanded it to do and preach.
