Bible Discussion Thread

If you want to understand what Paul is saying in this letter, you can�t read just one chapter and expect to fairly evaluate the whole Book. Please read all six chapters; they make up the whole letter, intended to be read by the congregation in Galatia. By doing that, you will find the following:
1. In the first chapter, Paul is presenting his credentials, and describes what the problem was, without �spelling it out�;
2. Beginning with the second chapter we learn exactly what the problem was: the teaching by �some�; including Apostle Peter ( Galatians 2:11), that in order to be saved you need to be circumcised, plus other �works of the flesh� described in Galatians 5:19-21;
3. Throughout his letter Paul mentions �circumcision� many times: Galatians 2:3, 7-9, 11; 3:3; 5:2, 3, 6, 11; 6:12, 13, 15;
4. In order to combat this false teaching, he expounds on the fact that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, not by keeping of the Ceremonial Law, which was fulfilled in Him.
By reading only parts of Galatians, many Christians reach the wrong conclusion that Paul is against keeping the Ten Commandments. That cannot be further from the truth. Here is what Paul declares: �What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law � Wherefore, the law is holy and the commandment holy, and just, and good�� Romans 7:7, 12.