Overview of Galatians

The book of Galatians is an interesting book. Well, actually, it’s not a book, it’s a letter that Paul wrote to some people he had helped out that were turning their backs on him. If you read it carefully, you can tell that Paul is actually pretty angry throughout the whole letter.

This letter was one of the first letters that Paul wrote and it therefore, has a lot of stuff crammed into it. As I have become more familiar with the Scriptures as a whole I have come back to Galatians on a occasion and noticed that most of what Paul writes in Galatians is covered in other letters that Paul wrote (Romans, Ephesians, Corinthians etc…). For that reason, Galatians is a good letter to read; it provides a nice overview of the basic arguments that Paul addresses at length in other places, but it is short so you can get through it in one sitting.

Before you come back to read the next entry, the assignment is to read the entire book of Galatians. It’s only 6 chapters! The reason you should read it in one sitting is it’s a letter. If your spouse or “special friend” wrote you a love letter and you only read the first paragraph you would probably not have a complete understanding of what they were trying to say to you, right? Letters are written to be read in one sitting – Galatians is no different. So read Galatians and then check back for the next post.

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