Christ is worth to you : Galatians 3 to 5

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Christ is worth to you : Galatians chapters 3 to 5 reconsidered

"You superstitiously observe worshipping days, months, seasons, years" Galatians 4:10

Retool .. back to Basics .. JSDI - just simply DO it .. remembering .. God led .. Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Soli Deo Gloria

For the life of me, I cannot remember, but do I have 'Soli Deo Gloria' linguistically correct?
Tell me considerately please, just in case it may be said it's a <deceptive scam> of mine.
 

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JSDI... sample to begin with:

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5: 4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
 

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The word ‘κυριακῂ’ means "belonging to the Lord", being an Adjectival Nomen of lordly excellence in the Genitive Case of Belonging and Quality.
THEREFORE in Revelation 1:10, in the phrase κυριακῂ ημέρᾳ, κυριακῂ is not one of the <special days, months, seasons, years> "by nature no-gods" : φύσει μὴ οὖσιν θεοῖς, but, by absolute contrast, is "The Lordly Day of the Lord", "LORD of the Sabbath .. the SON OF MAN" Jesus the Christ of God.
 

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The word ‘κυριακῂ’ means "belonging to the Lord", being an Adjectival Nomen of lordly excellence in the Genitive Case of Belonging and Quality.
THEREFORE in Revelation 1:10, in the phrase κυριακῂ ημέρᾳ, κυριακῂ is not one of the <special days, months, seasons, years> "by nature no-gods" : φύσει μὴ οὖσιν θεοῖς, but, by absolute contrast, is "The Lordly Day of the Lord", "LORD of the Sabbath .. the SON OF MAN" Jesus the Christ of God.
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= https://christogenea.org/essays/classical-records-trojan-roman-judah Classical Records of Trojan-Roman-Judah © William R. Finck Jr. 2007... Galatians 3,4,5 is about Israel -- about the Jews -- about professing Christians!!
 

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"You superstitiously observe worshipping days, months, seasons, years" Galatians 4:1
Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.”

Galatias 4:8-10 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?10 You observe days and months and seasons and years!

Paul was not addressing people who were formerly following God's instructions for how to know Him and were returning to following those instructions, but rather he was addressing former pagans who had started following those instructions but were returning to celebrating pagan holy days.

5: 4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
God wanted His children to repent and to return to obedience to His law all throughout the Bible and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message (Matthew 4:15-23), so it would be absurd for someone to interpret Galatians 5:4 as Paul warning against doing that and saying that we will be cut off from Christ if we repent and believe the Gospel of Christ. Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey God's law by word and by example, so Galatians should not be interpreted in an away that turns it against being a follower of Christ.
 

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Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.”

Galatias 4:8-10 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?10 You observe days and months and seasons and years!

Paul was not addressing people who were formerly following God's instructions for how to know Him and were returning to following those instructions, but rather he was addressing former pagans who had started following those instructions but were returning to celebrating pagan holy days.


God wanted His children to repent and to return to obedience to His law all throughout the Bible and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message (Matthew 4:15-23), so it would be absurd for someone to interpret Galatians 5:4 as Paul warning against doing that and saying that we will be cut off from Christ if we repent and believe the Gospel of Christ. Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey God's law by word and by example, so Galatians should not be interpreted in an away that turns it against being a follower of Christ.
Paul addressed people who "are justified by the law; (people who) are fallen from grace." Who else but the Jews?---who else than the very pagan Galatians, the 'Trojan-Roman-Judah' posterity of Jacob-Israel? (W.R. Finck above.) ---Who else than the Jews, whom God redeemed and saved out of the land of Egypt to be a people His own? The people who forsook their Redeemer Elohim-Mighty-Yahweh-Savior-I-AM ... who forsook God, to follow after every and all "weak and beggarly no-gods", whether named SunDAY, MoonsDAY, ThorsDAY, SaturnsDAY, etc. or Yom Kippur or Tabernacles or <the Creation Sabbath> or <Sabbath engraved in Stone> OR WHATEVER--- Which "NO GODS" IDOLS the Jews <formerly were following> or Christians formerly were following against the True God's Good News in Jesus Christ, which Christians followed or are today following, determined NOT to know their Redeemer, stubbornly returning back to their idols, determined NOT to follow or worship the true and faithful God of their salvation.
Paul does not address <former pagans> (in whatever general sense) only, but Jewish Christians also, former true believers who, not so long formerly, still believed the Gospel that Paul had preached to them, but who, "desiring to be justified by the law", they "returned to and again started to worship over again, their former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-days etc., like Israel did directly after their redemption out of the land of Egypt once upon a time before. Just so, these in name only Christians or believers
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Days",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Months",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Seasons",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Years',
IN THESE VERY LAST DAYS, AS THE LEGALISTS AND ZIONISTS THEY ARE.
 

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Paul addressed people who "are justified by the law; (people who) are fallen from grace." Who else but the Jews?---who else than the very pagan Galatians, the 'Trojan-Roman-Judah' posterity of Jacob-Israel? (W.R. Finck above.) ---Who else than the Jews, whom God redeemed and saved out of the land of Egypt to be a people His own? The people who forsook their Redeemer Elohim-Mighty-Yahweh-Savior-I-AM ... who forsook God, to follow after every and all "weak and beggarly no-gods", whether named SunDAY, MoonsDAY, ThorsDAY, SaturnsDAY, etc. or Yom Kippur or Tabernacles or <the Creation Sabbath> or <Sabbath engraved in Stone> OR WHATEVER--- Which "NO GODS" IDOLS the Jews <formerly were following> or Christians formerly were following against the True God's Good News in Jesus Christ, which Christians followed or are today following, determined NOT to know their Redeemer, stubbornly returning back to their idols, determined NOT to follow or worship the true and faithful God of their salvation.
Paul does not address <former pagans> (in whatever general sense) only, but Jewish Christians also, former true believers who, not so long formerly, still believed the Gospel that Paul had preached to them, but who, "desiring to be justified by the law", they "returned to and again started to worship over again, their former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-days etc., like Israel did directly after their redemption out of the land of Egypt once upon a time before. Just so, these in name only Christians or believers
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Days",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Months",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Seasons",
"again started to worship former weak and beggarly no-gods-of-(Holy)-Years',
IN THESE VERY LAST DAYS, AS THE LEGALISTS AND ZIONISTS THEY ARE.
You did not address Exodus 33:13, which provides important context for how to correctly interpret Galatians 4:8-11, so please address these issuess:

1.) Is God’s way the way to know and be known by God? If not, then what is the way to do that?

2.) Did God teach Moses how to know and be known by Him or did He neglect to teach Moses how to do that?

3.) In Galatians 4:8-11, is Paul criticizing them for returning to God’s instructions for how to know and be known by Him or for departing from those instructions?

It is important to recognize that the Bible can speak against being required to do something for incorrect reasons without speaking against being required to do it for correct reasons, so the fact that the Law of God was never given as a way of earning our justification even as the result of having had perfect obedience to it does not mean that we are not obligated to obey it for the reasons for why God commanded it. Likewise, it is important to distinguish between what is said in regard to the teachings of men and what is said in regard to the commandments of God so that we do make the mistake of taking what a servant of God said only against following the teaching men and apply it as if they had been promoting rebellion against the commandments of God. You are making an unjustified transition from talking about days like ThorsDAY to talking about days like the Sabbath.

In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, in Galatians 3:10-12, Paul contrasted the Book of the Law with “works of the law”, and in Romans 3:31 and Galatians 3:10-12, Paul said that our faith upholds the Law of God in contrast with saying that ”works of the law” are not of faith, so what Paul said in regard to “works of the law” should not be applied as if he had been speaking about the Law of God.
 

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You did not address Exodus 33:13, which provides important context for how to correctly interpret Galatians 4:8-11, so please address these issuess:

No, although Exodus 33:13 may provide some maybe relevant facts of truth, the issue is that you, do not address the relevant and important CONTENT, contained in Galatians chapters 3 to 5---you don't, not to detail or <content>, nor to relevance or 'context'.
Rather please address the issues of Galatians itself, which currently arise from the very words and sentences which Paul wrote in his time and day, regarding Christians', own, 'Christian' idolatry---idolatry which TODAY is rampant and hallmarks all Christendom and Christianity - the CHURCH; of which pagan worship most important and conspicuously acute, IS THE IDOLIZING OF THE HOLY DAY AND OR DAYS OF WORSHIP OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN ITS GATHERING TOGETHER AS THE BODY OF (supposedly) JESUS CHRIST... which are Sunday or and Saturday, "the First Day" or and "the Seventh Day of the week"---"NO-GODS" of "YOU WHO ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW OR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW." Galatians, that is...

Get assurance of this tragic truth about our own times and Church and listen to the SERMONS of these Christian idolators of our day and world, for example, how they preach there are 7 Verbs in Genesis 2 regarding the Sabbath, then they <interpret> these 7 holy Verbs of Holy Scripture and generously share their higher learning hermeneutics of it --- which is how they change the SUBJECT of the 7 holy Verbs from GOD, to MAN : change the SUBJECT from Third Person, HE, GOD: "God blessed", "God sanctified", "God finished", "God rested", to First Person, 'I' / 'WE', 'MY' / 'OUR' etc. without exception, MAN!
 
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