It is in the letter to the Galatians where the apostle laid out his fullest argument against the doctrine of the law-men. Having written elsewhere at length about the real nature of the problem at Galatia, and the vital way Paul dealt with it in his letter, I confine myself here to say that to limit Paul‟s teaching in Galatians to justification – which has been the dominant view taken of Galatians ever since Martin Luther – is to miss the letter‟s main emphasis, and miss it by the proverbial mile. What is the chief emphasis in Galatians? Not justification, but progressive sanctification. Not only has the wholesale evangelical adoption of Luther‟s teaching on the book, which was so drastically coloured by his own experience in his deliverance from Romanism, virtually obliterated this vital point, it has, above all, skewed the reading of Galatians so that many have utterly failed to see how the least contamination of the new covenant by any imposition of the old covenant, the law (and/or paganism), spells ruin to it. Ruin?
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