Letters To The Galatians Analysis

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In the Letters to the Galatians Paul, a transformed apostle to Christianity, attempted to convince the Galatians, those who did not follow the Christian faith, to convert to it. He began by building his credibility as a believer of Christianity. He then proceeded to instruct the Galatians of the proper way to connect to God was through Jesus. Finally, with the announcement that Christianity would be available to all without limitations. Paul’s main argument in these letters were to persuade the Galatians to follow Christianity and he uses his own personal revelation with Christianity to do so. I believe Paul convinced the reader of Christianity’s value and its purpose to welcome all as God’s children.
In the text, Paul began his argument
This was such because Paul was previously known to go against the religion and the destruction of its growth. “You have heard no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it” (Galatians: 1: 13). Paul’s opponents believed his previous stand on Christianity would not make him a suitable representative for Christianity. Without a powerful credit for the faith no one would believe what Paul said. This example goes against Paul’s claim that he is a transformed man, no longer attached to the rebellious image people previously claimed him to be. Furthermore, Paul’s image had been shot due his disconnection to the Christian faith. Another example of a counterargument to Paul’s assertion is that the people did not need to follow God because they had the laws to guide them. “Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? … For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law…” (Galatians: 3: 21). The debate here is that the law was put in to place because the people needed a system to guide them. The laws served this by keeping the people from acting on sinful urges. It was believed that if you followed the law then you were righteous. The laws essentially were meant to guide the people towards God. As a result, it is questioned why the people had follow Jesus to God, as Paul stated, if the laws were placed to do just that. The change of traditions appeared as unnecessary to those who were previously associated with the Jewish faith. For this group had relied on the maintenance of tradition to carry Christianity’s

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