Galatians — Book Overview
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About this episode
It is a firefight in the hallway of the church. In most of his letters, Paul begins with warm commendations and thanksgiving for his readers. In Galatians, he dispenses with the pleasantries because the house is on fire. The entire Christian life is a declaration of identity. Our modern world is in a frantic, desperate, and frankly pathetic search for identity. Men want to be women, women want to be men, the young want to be old, the old want to be young, and everyone wants to be a victim of some kind, because a victim identity carries a certain moral currency in our bankrupt culture. Paul has been fighting, not with fists, but with glorious, sledgehammer doctrine. They wanted to put the new wine of the gospel back into the old, brittle wineskins of Mosaic legalism. They wanted to supplement the all-sufficient work of Jesus Christ with the filthy rags of human effort, specifically circumcision.
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