RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fruit Of The Holy Spirit, Idolatry, Christian Ethics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

Accepts the law of moses as a divine covenant: people who reject the old testament entirely. Was maybe the first letter to show relation between faith in jesus and old testament, Letter to hebrews (not written by paul) also develops this. Paul accepted circumcision but wanted to show the rationale why it should not be applied to gentiles, paul understands why it was given in the old testament but he still thinks it should not be applied to gentiles. Therefore, this is the message in galatians. People do not know if galatians was written before or after the council of jerusalem. Q: how paul is stressing his independence from apostles. He only spent 2 weeks in jerusalem with the apostles and did not even see all of them the apostles agreed with what paul was doing and told him to continue preaching to. Gentiles the apostles did (cid:374)ot (cid:373)ake a(cid:374)y (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges to paul"s prea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)gs.