Subject: Why did Paul react so harshly? |
Bible Note: First, consider what the Judaizers were doing. They were insisting that to be approved of God the Gentiles had to, in effect, become Jews first, observing circumcision and other Jewish rites and practices. To the Jew, until a Gentile became a Jew and did all that, he was considered in some sense "unclean." As you recall, it took a vision and voice from God to correct Peter's thinking like that (Acts 10). Secondly, consider what the effect of that was, namely, to deny the purity and simplicity of the Gospel, that Christ died for our sins and rose again, and that by simple faith in His finished work at Calvary we can be saved and justified. They were making it a different gospel by adding to it rites and rituals, the effect of which was to deny Christ's work was sufficient and therefore in need of man's works to complete. For anyone to do that would obviously bring the curse and condemnation of God, which Paul was simply articulating in his preaching and writings. Phil |
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