Analysis_of_the_Letter_to_the_Galations

Analysis of the Letter to the Galations Analysis of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians It is presumed that Paul’s letter to the Galatians was probably written around 55 A.D. This particular letter deals with question whether gentiles must become Jewish before they can become Christian. The problem came about when Judaizing teachers in Galatia declared that Christians not only had to have faith in Jesus Christ, but also that they were obligated to keep the Mosaic law. Paul insisted that a person only has to have faith in Christ and does not have to perform good works, ritual works, ect. According to Paul, Jesus appeared to him and told him to preach the good news to the Gentiles (Paul 264). Paul uses scripture to explain why Gentiles should not be required to be circumcised, or obey Jewish Law; however, there are no direct quotes in scripture that say this. One would wonder why Paul, someone who grew-up in a good Jewish family, would not follow in the footsteps of Jewish Christian Missionaries, and require Christian converts to become Jews first. He certainly had to fight to have his belief accepted. Paul tried to follow the example of the original apostles by converting whoever galation, paul, law, jewish, gentiles, christianity, letter, jesus, galatians, scripture, problem, good, faith, circumcision, christ, thought, roetzel, probably, preaching, paul’s, paul's, one, jerusalem, however, god, christian, become, apostles, apostle, writes, works, woman, westminster, today, through, testament, style, represents, religion, press, preached, preach, possible, perhaps, must, make, knox, judaziers, john, hellenistic, galatia