In today’s program, Paul Trask provides some necessary introductory background in order to start a study on the book of Galatians.

He traces the rise and growth of Christianity through the book of Acts, and the tension between the law-keeping Jerusalem church on one hand, and Paul and his new Gentile congregations on the other. 

Was the Mosaic Law still operable? Or was it abolished, and replaced by the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31?

(Matthew 27:51; Hebrews 10:19–22, 8:13; Jeremiah 31:31; Colossians 2:13–14; Acts 8:14-17, 26ff, 9:31, chap 10-15, 21:20)