Law And Gospel In Galatians

uprightness and Gospel in Galatians

Sabrina Williams

REL 325
Prof Brandt
February 13, 2012

Pauls letters repeatedly address the issue of Law and Gospel. In his letters, he tries to answer the question of salvation. Are we saved by following the Torah or is it done faith in deliveryman as the messiah? This is a question that our early church building fathers wrestled with and Paul tries to express his view on it and we find substantiation of that in his letter to the Galatians. During the time of Paul, Jews were so preoccupied with upholding the Law that their lives where devoted to a strict regimented life.
Paul would rove that freedom from iniquity (or rather the punishment of sin) comes only through Jesus Christ since he was sent from God as fulfillment of the Law1. Jews in the first century saw this as an attempt to throw away that Law, to take out it void. It is easy inspect how the Jews would assume that this radical new idea, being free from sin purely by faith rather than austere attachment to the Law, besides that is not entirely what Pauls inwardness is.
In Galatians 3:15-18, Paul argues that a new pact does not void previously made promises of God. He uses the poser of Gods covenant with Abraham.



Paul asks his Jewish consultation if since God also established a covenant with Moses, does it make the old covenant of Abraham irrelevant. My point is this: the law: which came four ampere-second thirty years later does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise2 With the new covenant organise by the coming and death of Jesus, Gentiles are now allowed to be saved and be justified just as the Jews were.
In verse 21 and following we see a more(prenominal) sarcastic side of Paul. He asks his audience if the law is contrasted to Gods promises. He says in a humourous manner that the law does not make a individual righteous but rather the law is imprisonment...If you want to lend a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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