Galatians 5:22 – 26 (ESV). But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong in Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we li...
Also, in relation to this, Paul writes that Jesus came “at the appointed time” (Galatians 4:4). Other New Testament authors say similar things. While there is truth with this answer, it really doesn’t answer the question. All it does it move the question back. If Jesus came at th...
Paul writes that the love of Christ surpasses all knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). Someone who has the precious gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and is able to convince a mountain to move out of his way, but has no love, is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2),...
Another example is Galatians 6:1, where Paul tells the Galatians, “If a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.” Must we conclude that Paul means for us to think that the Galatians are invisible and not physical in nature?
in Galatians 5:19-21, and this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. I think maybe I’m the only person in history that read this passage and converted. But this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. And St. Paul writes, “Now the works of the flesh are evident,...
First, with regard to Paul inActs 25. An argument can be made that Paul did not "uphold the standards of the Mosaic judicial law," but rather appealed to Roman law under Caesar. This assumes that his Jewish opponents were defenders of the "Mosaic judicial law" (which they were not,as ...
Paul did not believe the Greek philosophy of his day which taught the immortality of all souls. Before the Messiah, Jesus, came, no one had a chance at immortality because of sin. If they did, then Paul's statement would make no sense. Why would immortality come through the gospel if ...
The role that repentance playsin salvation for born again believers in the Church Age is one of those topics that always seems to create a controversy, and that need not be. God has given us the tool of rightly dividing the scriptures we read for situations just like this. Paul says we ...
In Galatians, notice that Paul wrote that we are to do more than not sin. We are to strive to do good to all. Doing good to all is part of loving your neighbor. On the first and last day of unleavened bread, one day to do good to all is through Holy Day offerings (see alsoWh...
there’s many other things Jesus did that he didn’t write down and he doesn’t think you could write them all down. There’s so many things you could potentially write down about Jesus. There’s no way he was going to do it all. So why did he choose the things that he di...