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Okay, so this question comes from Richard. How can we know who is teaching the same gospel that Paul taught?

With so many divergent traditions, how can a person know which is the correct tradition? Paul was taught his gospel by revelation. If someone in our age has been taught by

revelation, forget traditions. Well, in this case, we know that Paul was taught by revelation

because that's what he declares in Galatians the first

couple of chapters.

And now he's about to correct a distortion of the gospel that the Galatians are pursuing.

And he explains that the clarity he has about the nature of the gospel, he did not get from men,

but he got it directly from Jesus, not just in that initial revelation, Saul,

why are you persecuting me?

That's how he became a Christian.

It was later that he spent time in Arabia for two years, and we don't know details of that,

but he was also,

you know, schooled by the resurrected Christ.

So what he says, though, in Galatians is because it is, what he's about to do is make a correction to errant teaching that is called the Judaizer heresy that the Galatians

have fallen prey to. And so one of the things that he has to do is he's got to establish his authority.

And so he does that right out of the gate. He not only makes this rather garish claim, what are the first couple words of Galatians.

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