Allen's use if the word "Christianity" is ill-fitted to that sentence. He should have used "Christendom instead.
And, regarding the continuance of The Faith, it is my contention that the Galatians took Paul's scolding very seriously, and never followed that line of hypocritical legalism again--that they became the proponents of the Gospel that never bowed/cowed to the so-called theologians of the "catholic" types, and held to the conduct of local autonomous immersionist assemblies governed by strong preaching, the Remembrance Supper, and unfeigned love of the brethren under persecution--the forerunners of thoday's Baptists.
>> “And, regarding the continuance of The Faith, it is my contention that the Galatians took Paul’s scolding very seriously, and never followed that line of hypocritical legalism again—that they became the proponents of the Gospel that never bowed/cowed to the so-called theologians of the “catholic” types, and held to the conduct of local autonomous immersionist assemblies governed by strong preaching, the Remembrance Supper, and unfeigned love of the brethren under persecution” <<
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Yes, except that I suspect that you do not understand that the ‘legalism’ to which Paul objected was not Torah, but the false “oral torah” of the Pharisees of which Paul had been the most excellent paragon until his encounter with Yehova on the Damascus road.
The Galatians that Paul addressed were trying to become Pharisees, much like many of today’s ‘Messianic’ congregations seem to be doing. Paul taught Torah, written on the heart.
>> “the forerunners of today’s Baptists” <<
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Having been raised in the Baptist church, I can say with certainty that the Baptists reject the scriptures almost as severely as the Papists.
No Cigar!