Hi and we can see the differences of what Paul ;preached and they are say that , we as DISPENSATIONALISTS avoid scripture and that we refuse to follow Jesus , WHICH OF COURSE IS FALSE !!
In Gal 2:18 , it reads , For since what things I TORN DOWN these I rebuild AGAIN , I prove myself a TRANSGRESSOR !!
#1 , What did Paul TEAR DOWN ??
#2 , Paul torn down the Jesus followers , called MESSIANIC ASSEMBLY in Acts 8:1-3 !!
There are 3 groups here , The Law keepers , Jesus followers and soon to follow , the Pauline dispensationalists !!
#3 The Greek word I BUILD is in the Greek PRESENT TENSE is pointing to the time of Paul's ministry !!
#4 , The second verb is I DESTROYED is in the AORIST TENSE that points back to Acts 8:1-3 !!
#5 The third verb is I PROVE myself a transgressor is in the Greek PRESENT TENSE and means that Paul would make himself a TRANSGRESSOR during his whole LIFE TIME !!
This than means that there were at least 3 forms of theology during Paul's ministry !!
But Paul also says that the Law of Moses is all most FAZED OUT as recorded in 2 Cor 3:13-17 which ANTI- PAULINE opponents REFUSE to accept !!
This is why Paul could not BAPTIZE !!
dan p
Your preference for Greek word studies as individual words over a much more extensive study of any one word by how it is used in Scripture itself, fails you.
As if words derive their meaning from themselves.
Case in point - what does the word "plato" mean by itself?
Depends...
More info is needed.
As in the additional info within the much more informing question "what does the word 'plato' mean
in Spanish?"
What if one does not know Spanish, nor has access to a dictionary?
Oh, but one ever has access to "a dictionary."
So now I put a dictionary in quotation marks.
Because it's sense is now different.
Case in point - what if you were to witness someone pick up three "platos" put food on them, and say to you "here; thees plato for ju, thees one for her, and thees one for de cheeken bones..."
Your built-in "dictionary" would begin to kick in to help you discern intended meaning BY HOW THAT WORD WAS USED WITHIN THAT PARTICULAR SETTING.
Or, theh U.S. fries Turkey in Greece and serves it to Hungary on China...lol
My point?
In Galatians 2, Paul is relating how that Peter had violated the truth of the gospel James, Cephas and John had agreed with Paul on - that the Law had been meant to find both Jew and Gentile under sin, that both might be justified by the faith (finished work) of Christ.
THAT is what Paul is talking about having destroyed, or announced had been rendered null and void by the faith of Christ as far as "the law for righteousness" was now concerned.
Gal. 2 in this, is the same as this...
Romans 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Here it is again...
Romans 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom. 5:8
Acts 17:11,12