Mika Edmondson

As part of his daily prayers, a typical first-century Jewish man began by thanking God for not making him a Gentile, a slave–and finally–for not […]

When we confess Jesus as the Christ, we confess that he is that promised king, whose reign means eternal life and peace for the people of God and eternal judgment for the enemies of God. This is the good news of the gospel.

When the Judaizers infiltrated the churches of Galatia, they brought these attitudes with them. Looking to their Jewish ethnicity, cultural, and ceremonial trappings to guarantee their acceptance with God, they treated Gentile Christians as culturally inferior and pressured them to assimilate in order to really belong among God’s people. At this point, I need to address a common misconception about Galatians 3:28.