You are trying to explain Galatians without even quoting Galatians. You quoted one verse and then ignored the surrounding text that show the context.
I don't "ignore" any verse written in the Holy Scriptures, Ever! Please stop doing the exact same thing you accuse and complain about others doing to you.
How can a man understand who was bewitching the Galatians, if he doesn't understand or believe what Jesus said about those who were bewitching the Galatians? Galatians by itself, doesn't define the "Jews Religion" that the Pharisees promoted. You can't separate Galatians from the rest of the Bible, and understand what the "Jews Religion" was. A man needs the "Context" of these things Paul is talking about.
The Gospel Paul taught, was found in the Law and Prophets, as he teaches in Romans 1. The same Gospel was given to the Israelites, and they rejected it, not mixing the "hearing" with believing. How can a man understand the Gospel Paul taught, by reading Galatians alone. Paul doesn't define the Gospel of Christ in Galatians.
Paul speaks of "another Jesus", different than the Jesus "of the Bible". How can you separate Galatians from the rest of the Bible, and understand who Jesus was by the words in Galatians alone? A man must read the Law and Prophets, and the eyewitness accounts of Jesus to know what His Sayings were, and who HE was. Paul doesn't define for us the Sayings of the Christ in Galatians. And yet, only the houses of those who are "doers" of Christ's Sayings will stand in the end.
I don't believe a man can, in fact, I know that a man can not understand Galatians without first understanding who Paul was contending with, what the "Jews Religion was" and what "works of the Law" they promoted for justification, and what the Gospel that was preached to every creature under heaven, that Paul was also made a minister of.
NONE of this information is defined in the Book of Galatians. To understand these things a man must seek to understand them, in the other Holy Scriptures where they are defined. In my post to you, I answered some of these questions by going to the source, I posted the relevant Scriptures, for our discussion, and you accused me of Ignoring Scriptures.
But such is the heart of man, and I don't care about your names or accusations. I care about you. So please consider the reason for my post, and the source of my understanding. And point out where you think I am Scripturally wrong. Not just where I disagree with your philosophy, but where I diverge from what is actually written.
Paul mentions Circumcision, not living as the Gentiles live but as do the Jews, and being separate from those who are not Jews in chapter 2 of Galatians.
Yes, Paul calls the Pharisees, "The Circumcision". He also said he was once Zealous for the "Jews Religion",
Wherein in time past he walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:." How can I understand what the "Jews Religion" is, by reading Galatians alone? Was the "Jews Religion" a religion that lived by and promoted God's Laws? No, Him, it was not, at least according to EVERY WORD Jesus spoke defining them. It was a religion that full well rejected God's Laws, and taught for doctrines the Commandments of men. It was a religion that was "Partial in the Law", and Omitted the weightier matters of the Law. It was a religion Pharisees placed on the necks of men, a Yoke of bondage that neither the Disciples nor their fathers could bear. A burden they placed on the backs of men they wouldn't lift with even one finger to carry. At least according to the Jesus of the Bible.
Paul said himself he was once zealous for the "Jews religion", and as touching the Law, "A Pharisee".
All this is the documented and undeniable Biblical Truth. But how can we know these things, if we separate Galatians from the rest of the bible, then create doctrines based on it's words alone? You can't my friend, well, you can, and many do. But such an endeavor with not bring about God's Truth.
So how was Peter "Living like a Jew"? If I adopt the popular religious philosophy of this world, that means Peter was rejecting the Law of Moses when he was eating with Faithful Gentiles, but "turned again" to the worthless and beggarly Elements of God, as soon as the Jews Came.
That seems to also be your position here based on the context of this reply.
But according to Paul and EVERY WORD the Jesus, "of the Bible" spoke to define the Pharisees, the "Jews religion" full well
rejected God's Commandments, persecuted God's Church and taught for doctrines
the commandments of men. NOT GOD as you imply Paul is teaching to the Galatians. And they were ignorant of God's Righteousness, and went about establishing their own righteousness refusing the submit to the Righteousness of God, that was revealed to them in the Law and Prophets, according to Paul's own teaching in Romans 1.
So when Peter withdrew from the Faithful Gentiles in fear of the "Jews".
For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they (Jews) were come, he withdrew and separated himself, "fearing them" which were "of the circumcision".
What are you teaching he was afraid of? "God's Laws"? Or the Commandments of Men they promoted which condemned Jesus and Stephen to death right in front of him, as they declared publicly, "We have a Law, and by our Law they should die"??
The Gentiles in Galatians Paul was speaking to, that Peter was eating with, had already repented, they had already turned to God and were bringing forth "works" worthy of repentance, as Paul teaches, Yes? They were already part of the Body of Christ, is this not true? Wasn't Peter then living as the Faithful Gentiles, and not as the rebellious Jews, being part of the Body of Christ, where there is no Jew or Gentile??
Surly you aren't teaching that "these Gentiles" Peter was eating with, that Paul said had received the Holy Spirit, were still worshipping pagan gods, drinking Blood, fornicating and eating animals that were strangled to death, contrary to the Law of Moses?
If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Isn't Paul saying, if Peter, a natural born Jew, was living as these Faithful Gentiles in the Body of Christ, and not after the "Jews Religion", then why would he compel these Faithful Gentiles to adopt the "Jews Religion" and be
carried away with their dissimulation.?
And what LAW did the "Circumcision" teach for doctrines? The Commandments of men, or Commandments of God?
All of these things are laws within the Book of the Law that is mentioned in verse 3:10. Ergo the law mentioned that does not justify is the Book of the Law.
NO HIM! The "Book of the Law" defines Sin, it doesn't forgive or justify sin. It was never written to do so.
Duet. 27:
9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
But the "LAW" of the Pharisees, who had corrupted the Priesthood, taught that the "Works of the LAW" justified them. What were the "Works of the Law" Paul speaks to here and in Romans 3, that the Pharisees were promoting? I showed you in detail, the "ADDED" Law, but you didn't even acknowledge the Scriptures.
Please, I beseech thee, Read Isaiah 1 and please consider that it is showing you the "Jews Religion". Here are the Pharisees, the "Circumcision"
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."
If you can't accept that this is the "Jews religion" Paul tells you about in
Gal. 1, or the Pharisees religion Jesus Speaks to over and over and over and over, then this entire conversation in a vanity and a waste of time. But I'm not convinced you are that blind, given your understanding of the Spirit of Christ speaking in David and those who place their trust in Him, "Lo, here I come to do thy will, Oh Lord". So just Please listen to God through Isaiah, as Paul did, as HE defines for you the "Jews Religion".
IS. 1:
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
My Brother, here are the Pharisees, living in complete rejection of God's Laws, "children of the devil" as Jesus calls them. Promoting a man made religion, clear as a bell.
Yet
EVERY WEEK they gather before GOD with their Offering
of the Blood of an innocent being,
according to the LAW, to justify them of their sins. But these "Works of the LAW" did not Justify their willful rebellion, because the Flesh
is not Justified by "Works of the Law". But the Pharisees would say, these Galatians Gentiles have sinned, and Moses said "if a man sins he shall bring a goat to us, the Priests of the Temple, and he is only justified,
if HE is cleansed by "US",
according to the LAW.
Paul is explaining to them that Abraham was Justified
apart from this Law. Levi wasn't even born in Abraham's Time. This LAW wasn't even
ADDED until 430 years after Abraham, and that,
because God showed them Mercy in the wake of the golden calf. And it was a temporary priesthood from the very beginning, at it's conception, as Moses tells us.
Duet. 18:
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
It was never God's Gospel or Law, to despise His Judgments, pollute His Sabbaths, reject His commandments, then show up once a week with the Blood of and Innocent Being, to justify a man of his willful sins.
And yet, this is exactly the "Jews Religion" being promoted to the Galatians. And it's the religion of our world as well.
In closing, it is written for my admonition, for my sake no doubt, about this world's preachers:
Jer. 23:
16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one "that walketh after the imagination of his own heart", No evil shall come upon you. (Thou shall surely not die)
We are taught by this world's religions since our youth, that if we call Jesus Lord, Lord, and admit we sin, that God gives us His Holy Spirit, and writes the Laws in our hearts that HE wants us to keep, and helps us keep them. This way, every person's lifestyle is justified because they just say, "God's Spirit directed me to reject this Judgment, or Commandment, or Statutes. As it turns out, each preacher who "Transforms themselves into Apostles of Christ" had different Laws written on their hearts. That is pretty much what the Holy One of Israel is warning about in Jeremiah.
But when I read what is actually written in Scriptures, God gives His Holy spirit to those who "Obey Him". Those who "deny themselves", pick up their life's experiences, and follows Him. Those who Repent of their own free will, and "Yield themselves" unto God.
Acts 5:
29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given "to them that obey him".
But in this world, many of God's Laws are taught to be against Jesus, Paul and the Body of Christ. That the Pharisees were obeying God's Laws, and God rejected them for it.
That is the prism you are seeing Galatians, Ephesians and Colossians through.
I am hoping an honest, unbiased discussion of the Scriptures might shed some light on this topic, and that God might be Glorified "AS God", "
as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."
