Understanding Ishmael seen in Galatians

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Genesis 16 Hagar and Ishmael

Before Sarai had given Hagar to bear a child there was peace between the wife and slavegirl. Deep emotions were stirred when the order was displaced. Hagar began to despise Sarai and then Sarai mistreated her and Hagar ran away. Isnt that the way emotions are? We run from them, submit to the emotions and refuse to think reasonably. When the Angel of the Lord found her in the desert He told her to return to Sarai and submit to her. In the same way we are to submit our emotions to reasoning with the Lord. Emotions are so numerous that it's impossible to know what they are about unless we do the work to untangle ourselves from their bad effects. In general they all come out as fear and there is no fear in perfect love.

After The Angel of the Lord instructed her back to her mistress He went on to explain who she would give birth to after hearing of her misery. Ishmael was to be wild and like a wild donkey with his hand against everyone, living in hostility to all. Emotions that are not under the controlling force of the Holy Spirit are just such offspring. Wild and untamed. But thanks be to our Heavenly Father that He sees all that and is able to lead us back to where we belong. In love and not in fear. Like Abraham this often comes with old age but certainly the experience is well worth the intimate relationship that results.
 
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Genesis 16 Hagar and Ishmael

Before Sarai had given Hagar to bear a child there was peace between the wife and slavegirl. Deep emotions were stirred when the order was displaced. Hagar began to despise Sarai and then Sarai mistreated her and Hagar ran away. Isnt that the way emotions are? We run from them, submit to the emotions and refuse to think reasonably. When the Angel of the Lord found her in the desert He told her to return to Sarai and submit to her. In the same way we are to submit our emotions to reasoning with the Lord. Emotions are so numerous that it's impossible to know what they are about unless we do the work to untangle ourselves from their bad effects. In general they all come out as fear and there is no fear in perfect love.

After The Angel of the Lord instructed her back to her mistress He went on to explain who she would give birth to after hearing of her misery. Ishmael was to be wild and like a wild donkey with his hand against everyone, living in hostility to all. Emotions that are not under the controlling force of the Holy Spirit are just such offspring. Wild and untamed. But thanks be to our Heavenly Father that He sees all that and is able to lead us back to where we belong. In love and not in fear. Like Abraham this often comes with old age but certainly the experience is well worth the intimate relationship that results.
Galatians 4:
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a free woman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise,
24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—
25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—
26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be
heir with the son of the free woman.”

31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
 
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Galatians 4:
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a free woman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise,
24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—
25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—
26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be
heir with the son of the free woman.”

31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Thank you. I believe that to be one of the most important verses of the NT. Sarai whose name had been changed to Sarah is contrasted to the law that binds, since grace is freedom from the law. Isaac, the legitimate heir, is that which is born free. Casting our cares upon the Lord because we know He sees and cares ( 1 Peter 5:7) (Psalm 55:22) assures us not to fear or be dismayed because He will uphold and strengthen as our God (Isaiah 41:10)
 
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Ish Shema El reads from left to right as "Man hears God," and from right to left as "God hears Man.".

Gen. 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
 
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Galatians 4:1-7
As long as the heir is immature they are no different than the slave but rather subject to guardians (the Holy Spirit) for the time set by the Father. So are we bound in slavery under the elementary spiritual forces of the world. Christ is the fulness of the time, born of a woman under the law so as to redeem us from the law, to receive our own adoption into the family of God. The Holy Spirit comes into our hearts, the Spirit that calls out `Abba` Father. So we are no longer a slave but a child of God and since we are His child God has also made us an heir.

Galatians 4:8-9
 
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Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit (offspring) of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:1

Self control is a fruit. Fruit grows and slowly ripens. As we continue to follow God's guidance, taking one step at a time, our self-control and all of the other fruit will gradually grow. Our job is to stay connected to God. It's the Holy Spirit's job to produce the fruit in our lives.

With joy and peace we overcome the pain of our broken past, with love, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and gentleness our relationships are restored and mended. With patience we persevere through the difficult times. With self-control we can stand against falling into the same sins again. God's Spirit supplies everything necessary.

The Galatians faced the same basic choice that all of us face. Should we choose God's power, freedom in Christ or slavery through useless and destructive activities and behaviors? There is no deliverance from the power of sin except through Christ and His powerful Presence within.
 
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Gal 4:23 The son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God's promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God's own fulfillment of His promise. Gal 5:5 we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. Gal 5:6b What is important is faith expressing itself in love. Gal 5:13-14 For you have been called to live in freedom, but don't use this freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. For the whol law can be summed up in this one command " Love your neighbour as yourself" Gal 5:16 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Gal 5:18 When you are directed by the Spirit you are not under obligation to the law. Gal 5:24-25 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions to the cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives.
Galatians 6:1-7 we will reap what we have sown, so share our troubles with one another and bring healing to hurting people. God sees us and He will not be mocked. ( Like Ishmael mocked Isaac Gen 21:9 resulting in him being cast out )

Paul closes Galatians with this:
Because of the cross ... What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation. ... may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
 
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God does see us through all of our trials and tribulations. We are to turn away from the things not of Him, putting to death on the cross the things of the flesh. But God always cares for us through it all, as He told Abraham that even though the inheritance was through the promise child Isaac, God would still bless Ishmael just as Abraham asked. Genesis 17:20-22
Abraham is the father of faith Galatians 3:6-9 but Sarah is the mother of grace. Galatians 4 describes the difference of the bond woman and that of the free wife, that of law and grace.
So as we struggle with the actions and emotions that we are still bound to, we are assured that the blessing of fruitfullness in those things that are of the Spirit, against which things there is no law, see post #6 even tho we can identify with the wild donkey of a man in our own lives at times ...
the promise, the heir, Jesus Christ Himself, Him of faith and full of grace, the rightful heir, we have also the promise that great things can come when faith is put in Him, then grace abounds. 2 Corinthians 12:9
 
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Galatians 6:7-8 You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

1 John 1:8-9 if we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to (God) He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

Hosea 10:12 Plant the good seeds of righteousness and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you.

Romans 7:15-20
 
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Galatians 4:29 But just as that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit so also it is now.

Genesis 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had born to Abraham, mocking.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; for those oppose each other that you would not do the things that you desire.

Galatians 4:28 But you, dear brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, just like Isaac.

Galatians 3:14 In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 5:5 For we, by the Spirit out of faith eagerly await the hope of righteousness.

Colossians 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Jesus Christ in you, the hope of glory.
 
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And finally:
Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Galatians 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles out of faith, announced the Gospel beforehand to Abraham: "in you shall all the nations be blessed".

Hebrews 11:10 ( for by faith) he (Abraham) eagerly waited for the city which has the foundation, whose Architect and Builder are God.

Hebrews 12:22 But you have come forward to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels to the universal gathering.

Revelation 21:2 And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride, adorned for her Husband.

Galatians 2:20-21 I have been crucified with Christ: and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.


What matters is the new creation as Gal 6:15 says and not just coming to knowledge of Christ in me, but coming to the church of the firstborn as well Heb 12:23-24, the mysteries of Christ and the church have been made known.

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Galatians speaks a lot about the promise, so it is important to have a background understanding of the promise it order to correctly understand what Paul is saying.

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the nations, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is in accordance with Jesus being sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness (Acts 3:25-26), which is the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham in accordance with the promise (Galatians 3:8), and which he spread to Gentiles in Haran in accordance with the promise (Genesis 12:1-5).

In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he might teach his children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that He has promised. In Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply Abraham's children as the stars in the heaven, to his children he will give all of these lands, and through His children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because he heard God's voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart by walking in God's way in obedience to His commandments, statutes, and laws, then they will live and multiply and God will bless them in the land that they go to possess. So the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught his children and those of his household to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom that was made known in advance to him, and because they did that.

In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, and in Psalms 119:1-3, God's law is how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed by walking in God's way, so the way that the children of Abraham are multiplied and are a blessing to the nations in accordance with inheriting the promise through faith is by turning the nations from their wickedness and teaching them to do the same works as Abraham by walking in God's way in obedience to His law in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom.

In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God, so obedience to God is part of the way to receive the Spirit, however, Galatians 3:1-2 denies that "works of the law" are part of the way to receive the Spirit, therefore that phrase doesn't refer to obedience to God. In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, so works of the law are of works, while he said that our faith upholds God's law, so it is of faith, and a law that our faith upholds can't be referring to the same thing as the works of the law that are not of faith in Galatians 3:10-12.

According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on God's law is the way to be blessed while refusing to rely on it is the way to be cursed, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as quoting from those chapters in order to support a point that is arguing against them by saying that relying on it is the way to be cursed while refusing to rely on it is the way to avoid being cursed. Rather, the way to come under the curse of the God's law is by not relying on it, so everyone who relies on works of the law instead comes under that curse. Jesus setting us free from the curse of refusing to rely on God's law is setting us free to enjoy the blessing of relying on it.

In Galatians 3:10-12, Paul connected a quote from Habakkuk 2:4 saying that the righteous shall live by faith with a quote from Leviticus 18:5 that the one who obeys God's law will attain life by it, so the righteous who are living by faith are the same as those who are living in obedience to God's law. In addition, the context of Habakkuk 2 contrasts the righteous who are living by faith with those who are not living in obedience to God's law and in Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is God's law, so the righteous living by faith does not refer to alternative manner of living that is not in obedience to it. God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust God is by obediently trusting in His law, it is contradictory to think that we should trust God, but not His law, and to interpret that as saying that God's law is not of faith is to deny the trustworthiness of God.

In Galatians 3:16-19, a new covenant does not nullify the promise of a covenant that has already been ratified, so the New Covenant does not nullify our need to obey God's law in connection with the promise, but rather it involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33). Likewise, in Galatians 3:26-29, every aspect of being children of God, through faith, in Christ, and children of Abraham and heirs to the promise is directly connected with living in obedience to God's law. In 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to God's law are not children of God, in Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of God's law, and in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked.

If God saved the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt in order to put them under slavery to His law, then it would be for slavery that God set us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for freedom that God set us free. Moreover, God's law in connection with the promise came through the line of the free woman, not the line of the slave woman.
 
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Galatians speaks a lot about the promise, so it is important to have a background understanding of the promise it order to correctly understand what Paul is saying.

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the nations, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is in accordance with Jesus being sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness (Acts 3:25-26), which is the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham in accordance with the promise (Galatians 3:8), and which he spread to Gentiles in Haran in accordance with the promise (Genesis 12:1-5).

In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he might teach his children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that He has promised. In Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply Abraham's children as the stars in the heaven, to his children he will give all of these lands, and through His children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because he heard God's voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart by walking in God's way in obedience to His commandments, statutes, and laws, then they will live and multiply and God will bless them in the land that they go to possess. So the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught his children and those of his household to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom that was made known in advance to him, and because they did that.

In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, and in Psalms 119:1-3, God's law is how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed by walking in God's way, so the way that the children of Abraham are multiplied and are a blessing to the nations in accordance with inheriting the promise through faith is by turning the nations from their wickedness and teaching them to do the same works as Abraham by walking in God's way in obedience to His law in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom.

In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God, so obedience to God is part of the way to receive the Spirit, however, Galatians 3:1-2 denies that "works of the law" are part of the way to receive the Spirit, therefore that phrase doesn't refer to obedience to God. In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, so works of the law are of works, while he said that our faith upholds God's law, so it is of faith, and a law that our faith upholds can't be referring to the same thing as the works of the law that are not of faith in Galatians 3:10-12.

According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on God's law is the way to be blessed while refusing to rely on it is the way to be cursed, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as quoting from those chapters in order to support a point that is arguing against them by saying that relying on it is the way to be cursed while refusing to rely on it is the way to avoid being cursed. Rather, the way to come under the curse of the God's law is by not relying on it, so everyone who relies on works of the law instead comes under that curse. Jesus setting us free from the curse of refusing to rely on God's law is setting us free to enjoy the blessing of relying on it.

In Galatians 3:10-12, Paul connected a quote from Habakkuk 2:4 saying that the righteous shall live by faith with a quote from Leviticus 18:5 that the one who obeys God's law will attain life by it, so the righteous who are living by faith are the same as those who are living in obedience to God's law. In addition, the context of Habakkuk 2 contrasts the righteous who are living by faith with those who are not living in obedience to God's law and in Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is God's law, so the righteous living by faith does not refer to alternative manner of living that is not in obedience to it. God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust God is by obediently trusting in His law, it is contradictory to think that we should trust God, but not His law, and to interpret that as saying that God's law is not of faith is to deny the trustworthiness of God.

In Galatians 3:16-19, a new covenant does not nullify the promise of a covenant that has already been ratified, so the New Covenant does not nullify our need to obey God's law in connection with the promise, but rather it involves God putting His law in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33). Likewise, in Galatians 3:26-29, every aspect of being children of God, through faith, in Christ, and children of Abraham and heirs to the promise is directly connected with living in obedience to God's law. In 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to God's law are not children of God, in Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of God's law, and in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked.

If God saved the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt in order to put them under slavery to His law, then it would be for slavery that God set us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for freedom that God set us free. Moreover, God's law in connection with the promise came through the line of the free woman, not the line of the slave woman.
Thank you Soyeong. I know you believe we are to follow the law of Moses however this is the Gospel given to Abraham before Moses and as such a covenant continued by Christ. Works of law make people disciples of Moses John 9:28 a relationship that has nothing whatever to do with life. Faith in Christ makes us reborn into the new covenant. The New Testament is a continuation of God's dealing with Abraham, having nothing to do with the law of Moses.

Galatians 3:9 So then they who are of the faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

I have no desire to argue the law of Moses vs faith and grace. Thanks for your comments.
 
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Thank you Soyeong. I know you believe we are to follow the law of Moses however this is the Gospel given to Abraham before Moses and as such a covenant continued by Christ. Works of law make people disciples of Moses John 9:28 a relationship that has nothing whatever to do with life. Faith in Christ makes us reborn into the new covenant. The New Testament is a continuation of God's dealing with Abraham, having nothing to do with the law of Moses.

Galatians 3:9 So then they who are of the faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

I have no desire to argue the law of Moses vs faith and grace. Thanks for your comments.
In Galatians 3:8, in connects the Gospel that Jesus taught in accordance with the promise that called for obedience people to walk in God's way in obedience to the Law of Moses with the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham and that he spread to others in accordance wit the promise. Likewise, in Genesis 18:19, Genesis 26:4-5, and Deuteronomy 30:16, the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught he taught his children and those of his household to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel that was made known in advance to him, and because his children did that in obedience to the Law of Moses. In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, which doesn't leave room for thinking that they should be doing a different set of works that what Abraham did.

In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Law of Moses, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know him, in 1 Kings 2:1-3, God taught how to walk in His way through the Law of Moses, and in John 17:3, eternal life is knowing God and Jesus.

Moreover, there are many verses that connect God's way and the Law of Moses with life. In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, says that the Law of Moses is not too difficult to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! Moreover, Romans 10:5-8 references Deuteronomy 30:11-20 as the word of faith that we proclaim. In Deuteronomy 32:45-46, the Mosaic Law is our very life. In Proverbs 3:18, it is a Tree of Life for all who take hold of it. In Proverbs 6:23, for the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life. In Revelation 22:14, those who obeyed God's commandments are given the right to eat from the Tree of Life. In Hebrews 5:9, Jesus has become a source of eternal salvation for those who obey him. In John 14:6-7, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and the way to know the Father. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that the way to enter eternal life is by obeying God's commandments. In Luke 10:25-28, obedience to the greatest two commandments is the way to inherit eternal life. In Romans 2:6-7, those who persist in doing good will be given eternal life. In Romans 6:19-23, no longer presenting ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin is contrasted with now presenting ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so being an obeyer of the Law of Moses is the content of God's gift of eternal life.

In John 5:39-46, Jesus said that they search the Scriptures because they think that in them they have eternal life and they testify about him, yet they refuse to come to him that they m right have life. I've just demonstrate that eternal life can be found in the Scriptures, so they were correct to search for it there, but they needed to recognize that the goal of everything in Scripture is to testify about how to know him and come into a relationship with him for eternal life. Jesus notably did not skip over Moses, but rather he said that if they believed Moses, then they would believe him because Moses wrote about him, but if they do not believe the writings of Moses, then how will they believe his words?

So eternal life has everything to do with walking in God's way and both Abraham and Moses walked in God's way and taught others to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom. God has one continuously revealed plan of redemption that did not skip over Moses from Abraham to Jesus.
 
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There is the law of faith Romans 3:27, Galatians 3:23 and the law of planting a seed and getting a harvest Galatians 6:7, Genesis 8:22 both of which are explained in Galatians as well as the mystery of marriage resulting in the marriage of Christ and the church in this thread. Abraham sent away the wife of the law and Moses okayed divorce but Jesus and the church are made up of new creations in Christ, something that could not be accomplished before the coming of the promised one.

Galatians 6:12-15

The Judaizers made a good show as a boast in the flesh (vs13) in the flesh but without the inner reality and spiritual value that are in our regenerated spirit. By the cross we are separated from misguided religious people and for that matter the culture that leads to philosophies that have the power to capture many into slavery but rather frees and qualifies to live in the new creation. The old creation is the old man in Adam Eph 4:22, our natural being by birth, without God's life and the divine nature. The new creation is the new man in Christ Eph 4:24 our being that is regulated by the Spirit John 3:6 having God's life and the divine nature wrought into him. John 3:36, 2 Peter 1:4 The two have become one. Christ is as the new constitution Col 3:10-11

The whole point of the book of Galatians is to stand fast in the liberty from the slavery from the law. The Judaizers sought to bring the Galatians back to the shadows; the Apostle Paul struggled to keep them in reality.

*If there is any more debate on this please open a debate thread in the area designated for debates as this is against forum rule* I will not be debating on the law of Moses further than to say Gal 4:2 was a form of guardianship until the fullness of time was ripe. Please don't promote the law of Moses here. Thank you.
 
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