Thursday, February 4, 2010

How did Paul refute the false teaching that Gentile Christians must become Jewish proselytes?

I really need the help for my bible classHow did Paul refute the false teaching that Gentile Christians must become Jewish proselytes?
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain? 5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham ';BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'; 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.





Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.





Romans 2:25 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.





Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.How did Paul refute the false teaching that Gentile Christians must become Jewish proselytes?
Read through Galatians, Paul answers that very question there.





It has to do with the fact that before there was the law, there was the promise given to Abraham by God. Abraham was considered righteous without the law in place (Paul actually writes the exact number of years). He goes on to explain how the Law was meant to show us how much we fall short and recognize our sin. The fulfillment of the promise to Abraham that through his ';seed'; all the world will be blessed, came through Jesus.





Paul shows in these passages we are not saved by the law, saying that Gentiles do not have to follow Judaistic laws/customs. Also read Acts 15 which discusses the Council of Jerusalem that made this decision.
Paul/Saul was the one who terrorized the first followers of Christ (Acts 7:58 to 8:3) and after Christ was gone, went on to declare himself an apostle! But don't tell your teacher the truth, or you might get an Failing grade in your class....





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By pointing out that they had received the Holy Spirit and manifested the gifts of the Spirit Without being circumcised.





Acts 15 1:21 Friend this is something you should know if you are a Sunday School Teacher.
Gal 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.


Gal 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.


Gal 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.


Gal 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.


Gal 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.


Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?


Gal 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,


Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Read Acts chapter 15, and then read Galatians chapters 1-4, and then read Romans chapters 1-5. It's all there :)
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