{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_gal_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_gal_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_web_gal_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/web/gal.htm","summary":"This is the Epistle to the Galatians, a first-century letter attributed to the Apostle Paul and part of the New Testament canon \u2014 one of the earliest and most theologically influential texts in Christian tradition. Paul's central argument is that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone, not through observance of Jewish law (particularly circumcision), and he writes with urgency to counter teachers who were persuading his Galatian converts to adopt Torah observance. He opens by defending the divine origin of his apostleship \u2014 received directly through revelation, not from human authorities \u2014 and recounts his independent commissioning and his public confrontation of Peter at Antioch over hypocrisy toward Gentile Christians. The letter's theological core (chapters 3\u20134) builds an extended case from Abraham and the covenant that law and promise are categorically different, the law serving only as a temporary \"tutor\" until Christ; faith, not law-keeping, makes one a child of Abraham and heir to the promise. A notably radical claim appears at 3:28 \u2014 that in Christ there is \"neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female\" \u2014 asserting a social equality that was striking for its context. This text would be essential reading for anyone interested in early Christian debates over Jewish law, Paul's theology of grace and justification, or the historical rupture between early Christianity and Judaism.","tags":["English Bible Translations","Modern Bible Translations","New Testament"],"text":null,"title":"World English Bible: Galatians","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":3270}