To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Or why else would he be speaking of "Abraham as our Father?" Abraham had nothing in common with Greeks in Galatia.
361 posted on
02/18/2003 6:48:42 AM PST by
Illbay
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To: Illbay
Please, Do us a favor and OPEN YOUR BIBLE AND READ! It won't bite you if you do!
Paul was an apostle to the GENTILES. The letter to the Galatians was written from ROME.
He also referred to Abraham as "our father" in his letter to the ROMANS! Further more, The saved Gentile looks back to Abraham as his father BY ADOPTION before Abraham was circumcised.
The Jew looks to Abraham as his father by geneology.
The Galatians were a Gentile people who accepted Christ as saviour. Then came the JUDAHIZERS and subverted their beliefs, demanding circumcision and an obedience to the Law of Moses as they did in the book of ACTS:15.
Galatians:
Chapter 1, warns of false gospels given by ANGELS and MEN.Did not your "other gospel" come from a man who saw an angel?
Chapter 2, tells of Paul's defense of the freedom of the Gentile from the Law of Moses.
Ch 3, Paul shows how the Gentiles are children of Abraham BY FAITH and heirs according to the promise.
Ch 4 An allegory on the difference between LAW and GRACE.
Ch 5 If you accept a little of the law, you accept ALL of the LAW. The walk in the Spirit.
Ch 6 summing up.
There is an inward desire in man to show God man is worthy to be saved. Our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord. In Timothy 1:15 Paul pours out his heart "This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me."
And get over this sillyness about "creeds." A hymn can be just as much a creed as much as a doctrinal statement. Does your church have a "doctrinal statement"? It is a CREED!
387 posted on
02/18/2003 10:55:02 AM PST by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
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