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To: roamer_1
Whether you/he are right or wrong is immaterial - Paul is a Hebrew, studied in the Word at the foot of Gamaliel. To strip the Hebrew sense of what he is saying is to lose a vast amount of context. The same applies throughout.

Paul is writing to Gentiles, not Hebrews—the Galatians were descended from Gallic tribes that had invaded Greece 300 years earlier—and he is writing in their language using their definitions, which as an educated Pharisee and a Roman citizen, he certainly understood quite well.

You only argue in circles when you assert that Paul was writing to them from a strictly Hebraic paradigm.

I would point out that you correctly declared the redemption from the curse... not the Torah.

"[A]ll who rely on works of the law are under a curse" (Gal. 3:10). It is the Torah itself that brings the curse on men by its inability to save them from their own sin.

Now, as a man, I am not subject to my father's torah. But the curses for not following his wisdom still remain

Ladies and gentlemen, I present: The Amazing Self-Refuting Assertion.

Likewise our Father's Torah. How then can one claiming to be a child of YHWH pay no attention to the Torah of His House?

By paying attention to his Messiah, whom the Torah foreshadows. That is its purpose. You may revere the mere shadow, if you wish (Colossians 2:6-7); I will worship the One who stands in the light.

I don't see that - If Yeshua is our (and Paul's) example, and if Yeshua is the head, how then can the body do differently than the head?

If you think we should imitate everything Christ did in every respect, then, by all means, feel free to nail yourself up on a pole, atone for the sins of the world, and come back to life the next Sunday. Tell us how it turns out, OK?

232 posted on 03/05/2014 9:16:30 AM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa; roamer_1

>> “Paul is writing to Gentiles, not Hebrews—the Galatians were descended from Gallic tribes that had invaded Greece 300 years earlier” <<

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Those ‘gentiles’ were gentile Hebrews, as can be solidly proven by their descendants inscriptions in Hebrew on rock surfaces in Ireland.

All of the congregations that Paul ministered to were the ones Yeshua sent his apostles to in Matthew 10.

There were no pagan congregations that received epistles.
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234 posted on 03/05/2014 9:24:01 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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