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Three simple questions that will lend you some credibility IF you answer them...
What issue Paul was trying to correct when he wrote the stern warning in Galatians 3 which I quote below...
Hi Carl, I'll post the questions separately and give it a go.
With such strong language he was addressing a very serious problem - what was it?
Observing the Torah according to the flesh: which is to walk in the "works of the law", which is the Pharisaic natural minded interpretations of the Torah.
What were the believers doing that evoked such stern words. What does it follow that we need to avoid ???
They had apparently backslidden back into the old Pharisaic natural minded way of understanding the Torah: which is diametrically opposed to the new supernal and spiritual way, according to the Testimony of the Messiah. They had the Testimony, as Paul says, for Paul gave it to them, and thus the Messiah was crucified before their eyes in writing, (pro-egraphe, Galatians 3:1). This is probably the Gospel account which has now come to be known as Luke, which Paul was handing out with the Acts 15 letter in the congregations which he had been used by God to establish. What we need to avoid would therefore be going back to the old Pharisaic minded way of observing the Torah. However, most of modern mainstream Christianity doesn't have such a problem because they didn't start there anyway.
Gal 5:4
4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the Law; you have fallen from grace.
That is serious Hark...
Please tell us what Paul was saying to avoid?
A clear and simple answer will restore some credibility.
If one is walking according to the natural minded understanding of the Torah, and even all of the scripture, then the same has chosen death, and that is according to Paul and even according to the Torah. There are two ways of understanding: one is life, (Messiah), and the other is death, (natural minded thinking and understanding).
In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Moses says to Israel, (paraphrased so I don't have to quote the whole passage), I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil, (v. 15), and again, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, (v. 19).
If he sets before the hearer both life and good and death and evil, and-or life and death and blessing and cursing, and then says make your choice: then it not only applies to the hearer but now the reader because the words he spoke were then written in the Torah.
The choice laid before us in the scripture can really only concern one thing: the way in which a person chooses to read, view, and understand the scripture. If you walk according to the flesh you will die, (Romans 8:4-13), because you will have chosen death.
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