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The Book of Galatians
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Galatians is one of Paul's Epistles. Epistles are letters Paul wrote to Christians in the early churches.
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Galatians was written to the church that was in Galatia.
People who study the Bible do not agree on exactly where Galatia
was. There were a couple of different places called Galatia.
After Jesus Christ died and came alive again, more people started to believe that He was the Messiah. They started to believe in Him. They started to be named Christians. Most of the first Christians had been Jewish before they became Christian. They had followed the strict Jewish laws. They men had been circumcised. After they became Christians, they continued following the Jewish laws even though they believed that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. Gentiles were people who were not Jewish. Some of them did not believe in any god -- either God or false gods. Some of them worshiped false gods and idols. But they became Christian and followed Jesus. They had not been Jewish so they did not follow any of the strict Jewish laws. There began a problem. The Jewish Christians were not happy with the Gentile Christians. The Jewish Christians wanted them to be more strict and follow Jewish laws. Paul spent a lot of time with Gentiles. He helped many of them to become Christians. He did not believe that Gentile Christians needed to start following Jewish laws. This made the Jewish Christians mad. Many of the Jewish Christians didn't like Paul anyway. They did not trust him. In his past, Paul was very cruel to Christians. The Jewish Christians felt that he was not good enough to witness for Jesus Christ. Paul wrote this letter to defend himself and show that he had
authority and was good enough. He also wanted the Christians to remember they are saved
by grace, not by works and not by following Jewish laws.
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