[DouglasKC]

"Who has bewitched you, O Galatians." Here, they had been offered so much and they were willing to trade it for something less than they had. The key of your verse is the how turn ye again to the weak and beggerly... Paul is talking about the Law. The days are not pagan holidays because the Galatians weren't turning back into pagans, they wanted to be Jews and keep the Law. Why, Paul is asking, would you trade liberty in Christ for a system of days, etc.

If they were gentiles, they never kept the Jewish holy days. How could they then turn back to them? Besides, like I said before, the greek words used are consistently used to denote civil times and days, NOT jewish times and days which are referred to by different words.

[carton253]

I think you are missing my point. The debate didn't start until the Judiazers came to the church in Galatians and started to tell them that they needed to do the following things... (All based on the Law of Moses)

The Galatians, feeling betrayed by Paul, write him a letter. They wanted to keep the Law of Moses. The letter back to the Galatians are why the Law of Moses had been set aside.

My point is what the beggerly things they wanted to turn back to was the Law -- with its forms, and symbols, and days... The verses you used has to be kept with the Chapter Three. To break them out and suddenly have Paul start talking about "pagan holidays" doesn't fit Paul's flow. They, the Galatians, wanted to keep all of it... Paul says don't turn back to that...