Those Galatians, who Paul was speaking to, were former pagans. THAT is the context of the text in our discussions. You are conflating 2 different issues. Pagans did not know God, Jews did. Paul would have NEVER said that if they were Jews.
Conflating? No. You have a lot to contend with if you are going to continue teaching what you teach concerning these verses.
Questions....
What is it you think elemental practices is?
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when
we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Apparently Paul himself when he and his contemporaries were under the law, it being their Schoolmaster until Christ were in bondage to these SAME elemental practices.
Have you noticed Paul's use of the 2nd person and 1st person plural? Do you think all of a sudden he is speaking to a different group of people?
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when
we were children,
were in bondage (servitude) under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because
ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore
thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Gal 4:8 Howbeit then, when
ye knew
(SEEN) not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
These people that Paul is talking to, he included himself with in verses 3-5. Then in verse 6 and 7 calls them sons and relays to them that they are no longer servants to the elemental practices that they were mentioned to being in verse 3
Gal 4:3 Even so
we, when we were children,
were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore
thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Gal 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew
(SEEN) not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
So you think that the days mentioned are related to their pagan worship and not to the ones subscribed to in the Book of the Law?
How is it then that the ones being spoken to are being zealously affected but not good by Judeans or Israelites if the days mentioned are not of the Book of the Law.
Gal 4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
And how is it that they desire to be under the law if the days, months and years are not of the law?
Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?