What was the "different gospel" in Galatians 1:6?l

[louis]

Even here on this forum I often notice that many deny what is written in the Word in preference for their own unsubstantiated by scriptures dogmas. These individuals are they who bring up specious argument while wresting with those who back up their assessments with God's Word.

2 Peter 3:16 [FONT=&quot]As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.[/FONT]

 

[eternally-gratefull]

The context of Gal is trying to add law. In fact, circumcision was the big “work” being added.

However, when paul says another gospel. He is talking about any gospel which is different.

If we look at the greek we see two different words, where as sadly in the English it is spoken as one word (different or other)

if we look at the passage, we see paul says, if anyone teaches a different (greek Heterosexual - Different in kind) gospel, whihc is not another (Allos - another on top of the other)

He is basically saying if anyone, even an angel teaches a different in type gospel. That gospel is not another means of salvation, added to the gospel I have taught, it is nbot a gospel at all.

Again, In the case of the galations, they were adding law (specifically circumcision) to grace., and thus made it a different in type gospel.

 

[Marcelo]

However, when paul says another gospel. He is talking about any gospel which is different.

Yes, probably you are right. Paul does not specify (in chapter 1) what false gospel was being preached in Galatia. He starts talking about the law only in verse 15 from chapter 2.

 

[reneweddaybyday]

The context of Gal is trying to add law. In fact, circumcision was the big “work” being added.

However, when paul says another gospel. He is talking about any gospel which is different.

If we look at the greek we see two different words, where as sadly in the English it is spoken as one word (different or other)

if we look at the passage, we see paul says, if anyone teaches a different (greek Heterosexual - Different in kind) gospel, whihc is not another (Allos - another on top of the other)

He is basically saying if anyone, even an angel teaches a different in type gospel. That gospel is not another means of salvation, added to the gospel I have taught, it is nbot a gospel at all.

Again, In the case of the galations, they were adding law (specifically circumcision) to grace., and thus made it a different in type gospel.

Greek = heteros - another of a different kind. Good point.

Galatians 3:

1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you?

2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?



The Galatians were being led away from walking in the Spirit to walking in the flesh in order to perfect themselves. Rather than resting in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness, they were being taught "another" gospel which required a fleshly act on their own part.

 

[Grandpa]

Even here on this forum I often notice that many deny what is written in the Word in preference for their own unsubstantiated by scriptures dogmas. These individuals are they who bring up specious argument while wresting with those who back up their assessments with God's Word.

2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Yes. There are a lot of legalists and Judaizers who try to push the law onto Christians.

They don't like Paul because Paul refutes every inch of what they say. As does Peter and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

Greek = heteros - another of a different kind. Good point.

Galatians 3:

1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you?

2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?



The Galatians were being led away from walking in the Spirit to walking in the flesh in order to perfect themselves. Rather than resting in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness, they were being taught "another" gospel which required a fleshly act on their own part.

Oh My, Spell check did me wrong!!!!!! Lol.. At least as can laugh, thanks for that.. I need to check my posts a lot better!!

 

[reneweddaybyday]

Oh My, Spell check did me wrong!!!!!! Lol.. At least as can laugh, thanks for that.. I need to check my posts a lot better!!

I feel your pain. spell check is a mixed blessing!!!

 

[reneweddaybyday]

Yes. There are a lot of legalists and Judaizers who try to push the law onto Christians.

They don't like Paul because Paul refutes every inch of what they say. As does Peter and the Lord Jesus Christ.

There's a difference between who we are in light of being God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Eph 2:10) and the "different gospel" Paul warns us about in Galatians.

There's a difference between having good works in our lives because we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works and having good works in our lives because we are trying to perfect ourselves (imho).

 

[Charley]

Galatians chapter 1

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—7 which is really no gospel at all.

The Gospel is the "good news" that Jesus died for our sins and that now we can all approach God through our faith and in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Redeemer, and Savior.

Scriptures= Word of God.​

(1Thessalonians 2:13) New International Version (NIV)

[SUP]13 [/SUP]And we also thank God continually because, when you received theword of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word,but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you whobelieve.

(2 Timothy 3:16) New International Version (NIV)

[SUP]16 [/SUP]All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful forteaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

(2 Peter1:20-21) New International Version (NIV)

[SUP]20 [/SUP]Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture cameabout by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. [SUP]21 [/SUP]Forprophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human,spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

God can notlie.​

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(Titus 1:2) NewInternational Version (NIV)

[SUP]2 [/SUP]in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does notlie, promised before the beginning of time,

(Numbers 23:19)New International Version (NIV)

[SUP]19 [/SUP]God is nothuman, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
(Hebrews 6:18) NewInternational Version (NIV)
[SUP]18 [/SUP]God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it isimpossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of thehope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

Who are thedisciples of Jesus?​

[h=1](John 8:31-32) NewInternational Version (NIV)[/h]
[SUP]31 [/SUP]To the Jews whohad believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to myteaching, you are really my disciples. [SUP]32 [/SUP]Thenyou will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

When Jesuswas tempted he used the Word of God or the Scriptures against Satan.​

[h=1](Luke 4:1-4) NewInternational Version (NIV)[/h]
4 Jesus, full of theHoly Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into thewilderness, [SUP]2 [/SUP]wherefor forty days he was tempted[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]a[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP] by the devil. He atenothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]The devil said tohim, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Jesusanswered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]b[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP]”

Jesus declares all foodclean.​

[h=1](Mark 7:14-23) NewInternational Version (NIV)[/h]
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Again Jesus calledthe crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, andunderstand this. [SUP]15 [/SUP]Nothingoutside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes outof a person that defiles them.” [SUP][16] [[/SUP][SUP]a[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP]
[SUP]17 [/SUP]After he had leftthe crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about thisparable. [SUP]18 [/SUP]“Areyou so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside candefile them?[SUP]19 [/SUP]Forit doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of thebody.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
[SUP]20 [/SUP]He went on: “What comes out ofa person is what defiles them. [SUP]21 [/SUP]For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, thatevil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, [SUP]22 [/SUP]adultery,greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. [SUP]23 [/SUP]Allthese evils come from inside and defile a person.”

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[IamWhoIam]

A different Gospel is one that tries to do away with God's WORD or only uses some of God's WORD to make it of none effect.

The different Gospel is one that tries to separate God's LAW from the LOVE of God.

Why is God's Law important to helping someone to have faith in Christ alone?

Because it is only through the Law of God (10 commandments) that any of us have a knowledge of what sin is (1John 3:4; Rom 3:20; 24). If we do away with God's Law we have no knowledge of sin. If we have no knowledge of sin we have no need of a savior. If we have no need of a savior we have no salvation. If we have no salvation we are lost. "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law." (Rom 2:12).

God's Law shows us that we are sinners in need of a savior. God's Law was given to us that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God (Rom 3:19). It shows us that we are sinners and cannot save ourselves from this disease that we have within us so that we can by Faith lay hold of the promises of God's Words so that Jesus can save us from our sins. Jesus did not come to save the righteous (those that think they do not need saving) but sinners (those that know their need of saving) (Matt 9:12-13; Mark 2:17; Luke 5:32) God's Law has always been part of the true Gospel of Christ. The counterfeit Gospel does not have it. God's forever Law (the 10 commandments) is the foundation of both the Old and the New Covenant and the very foundation and basis of the true Gospel of Christ. It will be the basis of the judgement where we will all be accountable to God.

The Law of God is the only way of showing us who we truly are, sinners in need of a Saviour and in this condition we can see for the first time Him who loved us and washed us in His own blood and by faith only lay hold of the promises of God’s Word. (2Pet 1:4) It is here as we believe God that he changes us from living a life of breaking God's Law to a life of walking with him. It is through the operation of God through Love because he first loved us that we follow Jesus not for salvation but because of love. Love is the fulfilling of God's Law in us who walk not after the flesh (carnal sinful mind) but after the spirit and why Jesus says to his followers, "If you love me keep the commandments" (John 14:15).

People cannot see that this is the operation of God in the believer and assume God's people believe they are saved by their works, when in fact Jesus is saving us from our sins to walk in newness of life in fulfillment of His new Covenant promise (Heb 8:10-12)...... Gods Sheep hear His Voice salvation is from sin and sin is the transgression of God's Law (1John 3:4) whosoever is living in sin has neither seen him nor known him (1John 3:6) ............

Galatians 2

16 know that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no one will be justified.

 

[Hizikyah]

The problem begins when Judaizers come and say that His commands for us are the same that were said to Jews by Moses.

In the days of Moses the Law of YHWH was mediated by the Levite priests, something after Yahshua/Jesus sacrifice that was aboliashed, post Yahshua/Jesus sacrifice Yahshua sits as High Priest and there is no more Levite nor human priests mediating. Yet in Israyl they "tried" to continue in the Levite system until the temple was destroyed.

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hebrews 7:13, “For He of whom this is said belongs to another tribe, from which no one had attended at the Altar. For it is perfectly clear that our Master arose from Yehuḏah, a tribe about which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hebrews 7:11-12, "Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law."

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“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]changed” is word #G3331 μετάθεσις metathesis (me-ta'-the-sis) n., transposition, i.e. transferral (to heaven), disestablishment (of a law). [from G3346], KJV: change, removing, translation, Root(s): G3346 [/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]#G3331 μετάθεσις metathesis; 1) transfer: from one place to another 2) to change 2a) of things instituted or established[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]From G3346; transposition, that is, transferral (to heaven), disestablishment (of a law):—change, removing, translation.[/FONT]


“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]change” is word #G3346 μετατίθημι metatithemi (me-ta-tiy'-thee-miy) v., 1. to transfer., 2. (literally) to transport., 3. (by implication) to exchange., 4. (reflexively) to change sides. [from G3326 and G5087], KJV: carry over, change, remove, translate, turn, Root(s): G3326, G5087[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]#G3346 μετατίθημι metatithemi; 1) to transpose (two things, one of which is put in place of the other) 1a) to transfer 1b) to change 1c) to transfer one's self or suffer one's self to be transferred 1c1) to go or pass over 1c2) to fall away or desert from one person or thing to another[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]#G3346 μετατίθημι metatithemi; From G3326 and G5087; to transfer, that is, (literally) transport, (by implication) exchange, (reflexively) change sides, or (figuratively) pervert:—carry over, change, remove, translate, turn. [/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The Perfect Priest!;[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hebrews 4:14-15, "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest Who has ascended into the heavens: Yahshua the Son of YHWH, let us hold fast our profession. For we do not have a High Priest Who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all ways tempted as we are--yet was without sin."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hebrews 9:11-12, "But the Messiah came near as a High Priest over the righteous things to come, with the great and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation; Nor through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once, for all, having obtained eternal redemption."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hebrews 7:23-28, “And indeed, those that became priests were many, because they were prevented by death from continuing, but He, because He remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save completely those who draw near to Yah through Him, ever living to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest – kind, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens, who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up slaughter offerings day by day, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, appoints the Son having been perfected forever.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:25, “Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]For it was written long before it happened:[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalm 89:26-37, "He will call out to Me; You are my Father, O YHWH! You are the Rock of my salvation! And I will make Him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy I will keep for Him forever and My covenant will stand fast with Him. And I will establish his Seed forever, and his throne will be as the days of heaven. Should his children forsake My Law, and refuse to walk in My judgments; Should they profane My statutes, and fail to keep My commandments; Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with lashes from the whip. Nevertheless, My lovingkindness I will not utterly withdraw from him, nor will I ever betray My faithfulness. My covenant I will not break, nor will I change what that has gone out of My lips. Once for all, I have vowed by My holiness--I cannot lie, and I say to David: His Seed will endure forever, and his throne will endure before Me like the sun. His throne will be established forever like the moon: the faithful witness in the sky."[/FONT]
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[Hizikyah]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Revelation 22:12-15, "And behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work will be. I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of gods and everyone who professes to love, yet practices falsehood."

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]John/Yahanan 14:6, "Yahshua proclaimed to him: I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father, except through Me."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 24:35, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but My teachings will not pass away.”[/FONT]

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[Hizikyah]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]2 Peter/Kepha 3:15-17, "And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability."

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:12-14, “So that the Law truly is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. Therefore, has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But the sin, that sin might be manifest, was working death in me through what is good, so that sin through the command might become an exceedingly great sinner. For we know that the Law is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]2 Corinthians 3:7-8, “But if the administering of death in letters, engraved on stones, was esteemed, so that the children of Yisra’yl were unable to look steadily at the face of Mosheh because of the esteem of his face, which was passing away, how much more esteemed shall the administering of the Spirit not be?”

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 2:13, “For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.”[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Galatians 5:4, “You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Pauls teaches not to try to be justified by the Law;
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I believe It is those that think Paul taught not to follow the Law of the Creator is what is causing the error…[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 24:14, "But I confess this to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so I (Paul) worship the Father of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:25, "Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 21:24, "Take them, and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that those things they were informed about you (forsaking the Law), were lies, and that you (Paul), yourself, walk orderly, and keep the Law."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Corinthians 7:19, "For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of Yah?"[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:28, "For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:31, "Are we then doing away with the Law through the faith? By no means! Rather, we establish the Law!"[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?"[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 John 3:4, "Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Law; for sin is the transgression of the Law."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:7, Shall we therefore say that the Law is sin? No! By no means! But to the contrary, I did not know sin; transgression of the Law, except through the Law, for I did not know lust, unless the Law had said: Do not covet."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:12, "Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandments are holy, and just, and righteous."[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ephesians 6:2-3, "Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with a promise: That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."[/FONT]

 

[stillness]

Galatians chapter 1

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—7 which is really no gospel at all.
If the "different gospel" was not grace + the law of Moses, what was it then?

You already have the answer: it was grace + the Law of Moses. God's influence makes us alive to obey from the heart, by the Holy Spirit, having written the New Commandment of the Love of God in our heart; but the Law of Moses kills us. A new commandment I give to you, that you Love one another as I love you, that you also Love one another. This new commandment fulfills the 2 commandments that the Law of Moses and the prophets hang on: on the tree with Christ: In His death and Resurrection: Sin shall not have dominion for you are not under the Law but under grace. The Law of sin and death is abolished, nailed on the tree with Christ. For further understanding if your interested heck on my page other post i have replied to concerning the Law, convinced that we are free from the Law of Moses and free from the dictates of the beast that thinks to change times and laws to bring us back in bondage. At the same time its not about trying to help GOD with others who preach the Law as this preaching helps us further the freedom we have in Christ, in a round about way: if the command of the Sabbath rest is nullified as an obligation then the whole law has to be nullified as an obligation to free us to do from a willing hearth the will of God left as an inheritance, about entering permanent rest in the death and exchange of our will with Christ who carries us into His death to all that is not of God. Fascinating how those preaching the Law bring us into more freedom from the Law. "some preach Christ out of strife and contention, supposing to ad affliction to my slavery to Christ, and some out of Love and well doing."

 

[BillG]

Ever wonder why the end has never come as indicated in Matthew 24:14 the end would come upon having completed preaching the gospel throughout the world? It is because so many false gospels have been preached, and are being preached, other than the true gospel.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Interesting.

Acts 2:5-6
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.


Is it possible this prophecy was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost?

Pentecost was significant to the Jews.

In the OT, it referred to the OT feasts

Exodus 34:23
23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.

So it not have been unusual to see the Jews come to Jerusalem.


If that's the case then they would have made their way home again taking the Gospel with them to every nation under heaven.

Just my simple thoughts.

 

[Nehemiah6]

Is it possible this prophecy was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost?

Only partially and only initially. The propagation of the Gospel is still ongoing throughout the world.

 

[Studyman]

Galatians chapter 1

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—7 which is really no gospel at all.


If the "different gospel" was not grace + the law of Moses, what was it then?

I think it is a mistake to separate any of Paul's writings from the Gospel He taught from.

I also think it is a mistake to forget that the Jews religion and customs they called the "Law of Moses" was not the Law of Moses.

John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Matt. 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Paul believed in and taught from the Old Testament.

Acts. 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Acts 26:20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

Given these truths it seems unlikely that Paul is speaking about "Grace + "Law of Moses". Because Paul taught Salvation from the Law and the Prophets as he said in Romans 1. But the Mainstream preachers of Paul's time were preaching their own religion that, as Jesus said, was not the Law of Moses, but their own traditions, which included their version of the Levitical Priesthood "works of the Law" for remission of sins.

Paul declared himself:

Gal. 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead)

13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

So I think it is a scriptural mistake to assume that those who were "preaching a different Gospel" were preaching obedience to The God of Abraham, rather, they were still furthering their man made doctrines and traditions of men that Jesus exposed, that Paul used to follow before Jesus set him straight.

Great question.

 

[Marcelo]

Romans 2:13, “For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.”

Let's read the next verses:

. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)

See, Hizikyah? Paul says the Gentiles don't have the law = The law was not given to us.

 

[beastslayer1970]

Galatians chapter 1

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—7 which is really no gospel at all.


If the "different gospel" was not grace + the law of Moses, what was it then?

Gal 3:1-5 answers this


You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? [SUP]2 [/SUP]This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? [SUP]3 [/SUP]Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? [SUP]4 [/SUP]Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? [SUP]5 [/SUP]So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

 

[loveme1]

Let's read the next verses:

.14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)

See, Hizikyah? Paul says the Gentiles don't have the law = The law was not given to us.

Keep reading through.. Remember Paul’s writings are said to be hard understood..

If a circumcised man steals and commits adultery.. his conscience is not bearing witness of the law written on his heart..

if an uncircumcised man steals and commits adultery his conscience neither...

Another teaching that Salvation was to all Jew or Gentile if they Believe the Messiah’s Testament..

The Believer will not steal or commit adultery bearing witness of the law through the Spirit not the letter.. because of their Faith in Christ.

After all GOD said He would write His Law on our hearts.. yes this is His New Covenant where the Just shall live by Faith.