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How Paul defended his Gospel in Galatians

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This is part of the series blogging through Galatians. You might want to start with part 1.

Apostle Paul (painting by El Greco 1612)

Paul wrote the letter to the Galatians around 49 AD, likely from the city of Antioch. He is dealing with the proclamation of “another gospel”. This theological challenge to the gospel that Paul is teaching has reached not only Galatia, but the majority of the regions where Christianity has spread.

This “other gospel” asserts that one must adhere to the Mosaic Law, including circumcision, in order to be saved. Continue reading →

Galatians in Tweets

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Today #Galatians was a world-wide trending topic that was started by the desiring God blog which took on the task of conveying the book of Galatians in 30 tweets. I thought it was pretty amazing that for the better part of a day the message of Galatians was passed on to so many. Since I have been studying and teaching through this book over the past 3 weeks I joined in the fray.

Here are my Top Ten (in order of appearance within the text)

[Continue reading through the series: part 4]

Clear and Present Danger

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Clear and Present Danger is not just a good book and later movie but got its start in the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) way back in 1919. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing the unanimous opinion for the SCOTUS in the case Schenck v. United States, gave us the clear and present danger test. It states in essence that there are times when the 1st Amendment right to free speech may be restricted. The test was actually refined through additional cases as a means to protect speech unless the immediate threat of illegal activity was present.

The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree.  (emphasis added)

Martin Luther (Lucas Cranach the Elder 1526)

In Luther’s introduction to his commentary on Galatians, he articulates his own test for clear and present danger when it comes to matters of theology. Continue reading →