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Unit 5 Assigned Reading Review Questions Read the assigned readings from the textbooks: "The Epistles Of Paul" - Lutheran Bible Commentary (LBC) pgs. 411-413 "Galatians" - LBC pgs. 499-515 Answer the following questions from the assigned readings in the Lutheran Bible Companion. These questions come straight from the readings so be sure to base your answers on the reading but put them into your own words. 1. Describe Paul's background history, origins, and upbringing. Paul was originally regarded as Saul of Tarsus in Cilicia and due to his Diaspora Jewish father and upbringing, he studied the Scriptures as a Pharisee in Jerusalem under Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder. Paul would also enthusiastically defend his Jewish faith by supporting the execution and arrest of Christians due to them being seen as false teachers. Paul was also a tentmaker while he studied the Scriptures frequently. 2. Explain how Paul went from being a Christian persecutor to a Christian preacher and author. Paul was raised in a Diaspora Jewish family and became very passionate about the Scriptures and in turn, he would seek to arrest and execute Christians due to the belief that they were false teachers. While Paul was traveling to Damascus to arrest the false teachers (Christians), Jesus confronted him and turned Paul’s heart to be a Christian. After Paul was confronted by Jesus, he immediately went to get baptized and started to proclaim that Jesus was the Messiah. 3. Describe the importance of Paul's letters to the development of Christianity and how Paul's writings made their way into the Christian church. Paul was ordered by the Roman emperor to execute Paul and while Paul was in prison for proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah, he continued to write the letters that he had started writing about during his missionary journeys. Paul would then have the help of a scribe to hand deliver these letters from prison to the early Christian scribes who would begin to circulate the letters to shape the New Testament. By establishing the style and format for Christian letters, he would go on to influence how Christians relate to one another to this present day. 4. Who were the Judaizers and why was Paul so concerned about them in his letter to the Galatians? Paul refers to the Judaizers as teachers who would visit other churches and spread their views to churches that Paul and Barnabas had previously worked hard to establish in Southern Galatia during their first missionary journey. The Judaizers were successful in proclaiming a substitute
for the Gospel. Paul was very concerned that the work that the Judaizers were doing by proclaiming that Paul did not fully inform people of what was necessary to reach salvation was not what Jesus had intended to proclaim in the name of God. Paula also wrote in his letter to the Galatians that the attack put on him by the Judaizers was an organized attack under a single leadership to harm the Galatian Churches. 5. Explain the "three-pronged" attack that the Judaizers used against Paul. The three-pronged attack led by the Judaizers was an attack on the apostolate of Paul, an attack on the Gospel of Paul by disregarding the necessary demands of God, and an attack that would point up the moral dangers to would then result in a proclamation of faith by nothing more than faith in a completely free and forgiving grace of our beloved God. This new form of the Gospel would promise a relaxed relationship among the unconverted Jews for the newly converted Jews to understand. The zeal of the uncompromising extremists would then go on to impress the Jews and the Gentiles. 6. What specific doctrines are outlined in the book of Galatians? The specific doctrines that are outlined in the Book of Galatians are about defining the differences between the Gospel and the Law. It also entails that humanity is justified through faith in Christ and not the Law. Due to the Gospel, Christ dwells within its believers by living as the sons of God to freely exercise their faith through love. It also means that rather than continuing the works of the flesh, believers will bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. When one of the believers falls short, those who are led by the Holy Spirit will restore them with a spirit of gentleness.
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