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A 3 page paper that discusses Paul's ministry and how this served to universalize the message of the gospel to all people.
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In response to this dilemma, Paul laid claimed to authority, invested in him by the Holy Spirit, and in so doing was able to universalize the gospel message to include
all people, and not simply Jews. This establishment of Pauls authority was extremely necessary due to the radical nature of his theological message, which was that Jesus Passion,
Sacrifice and Resurrection should be understood as constituting a new covenant between God and humanity. While previously, to be included within the covenant between God and Israel, one had to
be a Jew or convert to Judaism. This was radical, but this inclusive message is precisely what Paul conveys in Galatians. In this epistle, Paul expresses the position that
belief in Christ transcends the divisions evident between human beings that are caused by considerations of race, ethnicity and gender(Buell, 2004). This attitude is exemplified in Galatians 3:28, which
reads "There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, male and female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Buell, 2004). In Galatians, Paul outlines the parameters
his inclusive theology, which maintains directly addresses the "hot" issues of the time, which was whether or not Gentiles who accepted Christ as their Savior had to follow Jewish laws,
such as the dietary laws and male circumcision. One of the many issues that Paul discussed in Galatians is the fact that he is greatly disturbed by the fact
that many people in this congregation have been persuaded to become proselytes (Heen, 2002). Paul argues that this misses the point of the radical nature of Jesus mission and that
if Gentiles accepted the "offer to step into the Jewish social world," they emptied the "cross of its eschatological content" (Heen, 2002, p. 376). In other words, Paul emphasizes that
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