Join us for part two with Dr. Jared Ludlow on Galatians chapter one through six.

What a challenge for Paul because this is all the Jews had ever known and the Gentiles

are coming into this and trying to put those all together because the guy out there

mown as long would be by the definition we're using probably a Gentile and we're learning

all this stuff those guys did in the past with the love Moses but for Paul when it was

all happening all at once it helps me to see what a challenge he really had in bringing

Gentiles and Jews and Jewish Congress to Christianity all together at the same time with

all of their past practices putting that all together and he can't be there he can only

write these letters that just sounds like his challenge was really harder than I ever

imagine. To add to that challenge is what he talks about in chapter two with a kind of

confrontation with Peter. Oh man. Paul goes back to an experience that he had earlier so

this is not when he's in glacier with them but he was in Antioch which is in modern

day Syria and Antioch became an early important center of Christianity in fact in the book

of Acts it mentions that that's the first place that they are called Christians these believers

in the Messiah but he's up there in Antioch so chapter two verse 11 and Peter came up and kind

of his introduction Paul says I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed so in

other words I called him out and then he gives the background why did he call him out well before

that certain people came from James and by James here it's talking about Jesus's brother the leader

of the church in Jerusalem and they seem to represent Jerusalem kind of represented the core of this

Jewish practice continuation because that's how they were raised and they come from this party of

James or whatever and before they came Peter was eating with the Gentiles and as you know there's

some challenges when you mix Jews and Gentiles together eating because Gentiles do not follow

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