Galatians Chapter 4 Summary

They indicate the Ten Commandments, taking note of that "Thou shalt not desire thy neighbor's home, ... nor his attendant, nor his maidservant. " In the New Testament, Paul gave back a runaway slave, Philemon, to his lord, and, in spite of the fact that servitude was boundless all through the Roman world, Jesus never took a stand in opposition to it. Guards of servitude swung to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred Scott Decision, that all blacks — not simply slaves — had no legitimate remaining as people in our courts — they were property, and the Constitution secured slaveholders' rights to their property. Protectors of bondage contended that the establishment was divine, and that it conveyed Christianity to the pagan from over the sea.

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Amenably, in Galatians 5, 6, Paul explicates the outcome of justification by grace through faith is spiritual freedom. Paul appealed to the Galatians to persevere in their freedom, and not become ensnared in the slavery of Mosaic Law. Christian independence is not a justification to appease one’s lower nature, rather a prospect to love one another. Such freedom does not isolate one from life’s struggles. In actuality, it may strengthen the battle concerning the Spirit and the flesh. Nonetheless, the flesh remains crucified with Christ, consequently the Spirit bears His fruit as in love, joy, and peace in the natural life of the believer.

The reference to God was very powerful for many of the people . Religion. Of specifically The Bible, was the book that people lived by. They worshiped on Sundays and practiced their religions throughout the week. Throughout her novel, Harriet Jacobs uses religion to help emphasise hypocrisy, the actions of the people around her. “.. God sees you; and he will punish you. You must forsake your sinful ways, and be faithful servants. Obey your old master and your young master--your old mistress and your young mistress. If you disobey your earthly master, you offend your heavenly Master. You must obey God's commandments”( Jacobs, 2001 p. 59 ). The fact that the pastor is telling the enslaved that if they are disobedient, and they make their “Earthy Master” angry,

When black slaves were brought from Africa over to the New World, they were ripped away from their cultures, customs, and religion. Most slaves would later become Christians due to colonialist ideology, but the problem with this was that christianized slaves posed a threat to slave systems. Christianity taught blacks to see themselves as equals to their white counterparts in the eyes of God, therefore in the church, blacks began to question the Christian hierarchy imposed by protestant preachers which stated that slaves were bound to obey their masters. White Christians justified their rights to enslave blacks with biblical verses such as those found in Ephesians:

When we think of the word slavery, extremely negative connotations to mind. We think of how millions of African people were rounded up like sheep, stuffed into boats with horrible conditions, and brought to this country where they were treated as lesser people. They were forced to work without pay, in one of the most unforgiving occupations, farming. All this because of where they were from and the color of their skin. Despite this, many people actually defended slavery using the bible. Passages such as St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians approves slaves where he writes, “Slaves, obey your human master in everything, not only when being watched, as currying favor, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.” However, due to the inhumanity of slavery, during Vatican II the Church reversed its ideas on slavery. This massive change took place more than 80 years after the end of reconstruction. This long period of time raises many questions regarding the Church 's ability to make that big of a change, and why the Church waited so long make those changes. These types of questions can be answered by going back into the bible, and into the Church’s history through a process called Biblical criticism.

Paul holds a different view than the Old Testament’s view of slavery. In the Old Testament, the Israelites were slaves to the Egyptians for 400 years. The Lord prophesied this to Abram before it happened, and he allowed them to be enslaved. But he rescued them from this slavery when they cried out to him. The Old Testament law also encourages slavery and owning people as property. In Leviticus 25, the law encourages people to have slaves, “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath

In the olden days, people were arranged in different classes based on the type of work they performed. Slaves were given hard labor that required their physical strength, which they were looked upon as people undeserving of freedom and invaluable. However, Christianity expose people to a new concept which lead to the changed of slavery and history. People used the "Gospel message" to realize that people should not be categorized based on the type of work they execute. God, who became human, was a slave working as a "carpenter's bench", and he was a human that was looked upon as more than just a slave. People used this concept to show that all human life is significant and valuable, and no matter the work that is being performed that fact that

I think Paul has mixed feelings in his feelings towards slavery, however, I think overall he is anti-slavery. In 1 Corinthians 7:22-23, Paul says that if a person was a slave before he found Christ, then he will be free; but, if a person was free and then was baptized, then they would be a slave of Christ. In that passage, Paul states that the condition a person is in will be the opposite if they choose to follow Christ; however, the opposite is true in Galatians and Philemon. In Galatians 3:28, Paul says that through Christ there is no longer a person that is free or a slave. In Philemon 1:16, Paul asks Philemon to take Onesimus back not as a slave but as a beloved brother. I think Paul is against slavery, but I think that when it comes to Christ, that is when he might have mixed feelings because we do not know if a person is free when they follow Christ or if they are a slave.

Not only could slaves not be found under a Planters possession but they originally took them from their homeland to work for them and sold them to other Planters for their own benefits. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage,” (English Standard Version, Galatians. 5.1) as the Bible states, no one should be under the possession of any other person in the first place. The Bible strictly states that no one was born to be tied up but live their life the way any other human being should, because slaves are also human beings. “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,” (English Standard Version, Luke. 4.18) is directed to the Plantation owners of the slaves because they are blind to see that they are human beings. They can’t see that slaves are equal and have the same natural born rights that we do because they are not an

Slavery, a word described as the state of one bound in servitude as the property of a household. This description, along with sadness and disbelief gets brought into peoples’ minds as the chilling sensation of the explanations begins to be sought out. The New Testament brings us many different views on how we percept our personal beliefs upon Slavery, and different problems arising as aspects on this topic are perceived by Paul the Apostle in Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.

In the book of Galatians and Romans, Paul describes what he means by righteousness, justification, and faith (Harris, 2014). He examines his relationship that he has with the savior to show how the law may not provide, but that Christ always can, which reassures us of his love. In fact, Paul believes that through the crucifixion of Christ that it has paid the price for anyone breaking Torah’s laws. He states that “through the law, I died to law” which ensures that everyone now shares in a new life where God's grace covers it all. The Galatians were reminded that when they received the holy spirit was only when they believed, not when they obeyed the laws. Also, the reason that Paul told the Galatians that circumcisions were no longer necessary

In the Bible, the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt and Moses was chosen by God to lead them out. At first, nobody listens to Moses then people begin to realize that God is working through Moses to help free them from enslavement. Ultimately, God’s involvement through Moses helps give the Israelites freedom. Exodus shows examples of literal slavery in the Bible yet, slavery is a metaphor for anything that can hold us back.

Paul was a slave of Jesus Christ, in prison because of a firm stand for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul in prison writes this letter to the church at Philippi, to those set apart by the Anointed one for the work of the gospel. My imprisonment has actually helped spread the good news to new places and populations. It has spread through the ranks of the imperial guard and to everyone else around me, because of my faith in the anointed one. I am a prison of Roman, because of the believing in Jesus the Anointed, but being chosen to suffer for him as well.

Paul is stating if you do sinful things then you are acting as a slave to sin but if you are doing good you are acting as a slave to God. When Paul stated "shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace..", he did not mean there is no longer law. He did not say there are no longer rules for a Christian. We are not under the law but under grace in that we are free from sin being dominant in our lives and we are under the support of power of grace to become more like Jesus