Equality in Christ Against Justified Inequality

Paul in his letter to the Galatians suggests a notion of equality in Christ that seemingly challenges the notions of justified inequality of both Plato and Aristotle. Christ’s coming grants true freedom, which is not reserved to a specific class or race of people. No longer is there a need for an intermediary, which Paul writes, “[people] were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith [was] revealed” (Galatians 3, 23). Instead Paul suggests that when “faith has come, [people] are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith” (Galatians 3, 26-27). Paul then continues and makes what I think his most radical assertion, “there is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3, 28). Paul indisputably suggests that all are equal in Christ and that no distinctions can be made among those who have faith and are thence free from both the law and sin. Such an equality in Christ and belief that distinctions—based on class, race, gender, etc.,—are truly insignificant stands against Plato and Aristotle’s notions of justified inequality, and a division of labor or labor specializations based on distinctions among people. Does Paul truly advocate for an equality that destroys the division of labor? Should Christianity thence be considered conservative or rather radical?