“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” – Galatians 5:6
Gordon Fee, reading from Galatians 5:
“So he [Paul] picks it up in verse 6. ‘For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.’ And now listen, ‘The only thing that counts is faith‘ — [pauses] period? No. That’s a very Lutheran, Calvinistic way of reading the Bible. And it’s not Paul. The only thing that counts is faith that expresses itself in love. You cannot have faith that doesn’t express itself in love. Or to put it another way, if faith does not express itself in love it’s not faith. It’s something else, but it’s certainly not faith — not in Paul’s view.”
Transcribed by me from:
GF03-V4 Gordon Fee “Life In The Spirit”, Faithnet Media. “A 4-part study of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians by Dr Gordon Fee at the PCBC Conference, Auckland, May 22nd to 24th 2003″
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