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For Paul the Galatian controversy isn’t a matter of people choosing one religious option or another, finding a way forward on a spiritual journey; it’s a matter of truth. If it is true that the Messiah has died and been raised, then this in turn establishes a network of truth that carries its

The Galatian Christians have come out of the “Egypt” of idolatry, of worshiping false gods. They have been set free, redeemed by the personal action of the one true God in his Son and his Spirit (Galatians 4:4-7). Now it seems they have had a look at the wide and worrying world of freedom, and

Paul pictures the Mosaic Law in the role of a babysitter until Israel should grow up. So Paul now asks the Galatians, do you want to go back to being a child, when you could be grown up? Do you want to go back to being a slave, when you could be free?

Beginning again from scratch to learn who you are is a strange idea for most of us. It is precisely what people who have suffered severe memory loss need to do. It is what people who have suffered other kinds of loss also need to do: the refugee without home, country or family is only one

Imagine that you are in central south Turkey during the reign of the Roman emperor Claudius. Most in the tow n worship one or other of the local gods or goddesses.And into this town has come a funny little Jew called Paul. According to Paul, there is one God, the world’s creator, and this one