All obfuscation for not being able to refute the logic of what I posted. Respond to my reasoning, if you can. And to be clear, I am speaking only of what Paul is saying in Galatians itself. For the sake of argument, Luther and his Protestant followers could be right about the principle of faith and works, but this does not mean that this is what Paul is addressing in Galatians. Show from Galatians, how he is speaking of anything other than circumcision and the Mosaic Law.
“Respond to my reasoning, if you can”
Oh, I simply don’t believe you did the necessary work to undergird a legitimate opinion.
It was your choice and it is certainly your right to not do the work or to do it.
I remember in my first semester of seminary, a new student asked a question, and the professor answered, “If you were in your third year, I’d answer your question, but you haven’t yet done the work to have a frame of reference to understand the answer.”
And by the way, this student entered seminary thinking he knew everything before he began.
Paul's Final Warning11 Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand; 12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised — only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted, 13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory. 14 And for me, let it not be — to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world; 15for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
This passage turns the entire focus back to rejecting the judaisers. But Paul staged the lesson by referring tot he tiems and seasons and days and months observed from pagan rites, as if the Judaisers had set about to teach those rituals and rites were a fashion of the true rituals and rites as practiced in Judaism, so the Galatians should embrace Judaism because it was the truer form of the days and months and seasons.
It is apparent to all that he can't.