Dating galatians

Introduction to Galatians

Search verses, phrases, and topics e. John , Jesus faith love. This was the unanimous view of the early church, and even those modern critics who challenge the authorship of many of the New Testament books concede that Galatians is truly Pauline. On his second trip A. It wasn't long, however, before some Jewish Christians came in and began teaching that Gentile Christians needed to be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses similar to what happened at Antioch of Syria, cf. Ac In an effort to persuade the Galatians, it appears the tactic was to discredit Paul as an apostle, challenge his concept of the gospel of Christ, and charge his doctrine with leading to loose living. The "North Galatia Theory" maintains that the churches were in the north, and that Paul had not been there until the beginning of his third missionary journey A. This would require that Paul wrote his epistle sometime toward the end of that journey, or afterward i.

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Of the seven undisputed Pauline letters, Galatians is the most difficult to date. Paul is still on good terms with the Galatians in 1 Corinthians, and has recently given them directions concerning the collection. By 2 Corinthians and Romans, they are no longer mentioned as participants in the collection. The rupture with the Galatian churches, to which the epistle to the Galatians bears witness, has occurred in between the writing of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.

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Galatians may be the first letter written by the apostle Paul, and so we are going to take it up now in our survey of the New Testament. The date of Galatians depends to a great extent on its destination. An older view holds that Galatians was written to churches in north-central Asia Minor, where Gauls had settled when they invaded the area in the third century B. Paul supposedly visited this area on his second missionary journey, though Acts contains no reference to such a visit. This view holds that Galatians was written between A. This is called the North Galatian Theory.

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Dating the New Testament

Author: Galatians clearly identifies the apostle Paul as the writer of the epistle to the Galatians. Galatians was written because the churches of that region were facing a theological crisis. The essential truth of justification by faith rather than by human works was being denied by the Judaizers —legalistic Jews who insisted that Christians must keep the Mosaic Law. In particular, the Judaizers insisted on circumcision as a requirement for Gentiles who wished to be saved. In other words, convert to Judaism first , and then you are eligible to become a Christian.

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