Read Galatians 5.2-12. In 5.2-12: Why circumcision should be refused. Here Paul gets to the central issue that is dividing the community. The opposing thought God required the gentile Christians in Galatia to be circumcised. In verse 3: Circumcision indicated a willingness to live by Torah (Gen 17.9-14), The emphasis here is the entire law (3.10). In verse 4: Cut yourselves off can be be rendered, "You were estranged." To choose the law is to abandon Christ, the symbol of God's grace (1.6, 15; 2.20-21: Rom 5.15). In verse 5: Rom 8.18-25. In verse 6: Christ redefines the meaning of ethic identity (6.15; 1 Cor 7.19). Faith working through love is generally taken as "faith made effective through loving acts" (5.13-14). It could be "faith that be comes effective by responding to Christ's love" (2.20). In verses 7-8: The call to follow the law does not come from God. In verse 9: 1 Cor 5.6. In verse 10: The curse of 1.6-9 will take effect. In verse 11: To convince the Galatians, the opposing teaches apparently argued that Paul approved of circumcision. In verse 12: Not only would circumcision hurt physically, it would also banish them under the law (Deut 23.1). Comments of Questions..
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