{"id":6,"date":"2008-11-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/11\/gospel-27.html"},"modified":"2008-11-05T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:10:00","slug":"gospel-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/11\/gospel-27.html","title":{"rendered":"Gospel 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galatians has three sections: autobiography (chps 1-2), theology (3-4) and praxis (5-6). Simplied of course. The opening section of the autobiographical argument for Paul’s gospel has several references to “gospel” and “gospeling”:<\/p>\n

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11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not
\nsomething that man made up. 12 I did not receive it from any man, nor
\nwas I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
\n13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how
\nintensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. 14 I
\nwas advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was
\nextremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when God,
\nwho set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16
\nto reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles,
\nI did not consult any man, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those
\nwho were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and
\nlater returned to Damascus. 18 Then after three years, I went up to
\nJerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen
\ndays. 19 I saw none of the other apostles-only James, the Lord’s
\nbrother. 20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no
\nlie. 21 Later I went to Syria and Cilicia. 22 I was personally unknown
\nto the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 23 They only heard the
\nreport: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith
\nhe once tried to destroy.” 24 And they praised God because of me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First,
\nPaul’s gospel is not man-made but comes “by revelation from Jesus
\nChrist” (v. 11-12). This means he thinks his opponents’ gospel is
\nman-made: the Christ + Torah observance (or commands within the Torah)
\nis a man-made gospel.<\/p>\n

Second, Paul’s task is to “gospel” to the
\nGentiles (v. 16). And he didn’t need authorization from Jerusalem —
\nthe man-made approach — to preach this gospel.<\/p>\n

Third, Paul sums
\nup his opponents attitude to his task with this: “The man who formerly
\npersecuted us is now preaching\/gospeling the faith he once tried to
\ndestroy” (v. 23). The word “faith” is central to Paul’s gospel.<\/p>\n

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