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(8) Is Salvation by Promise or Obedience?
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It is possible to teach only the Bible and yet proclaim a false gospel. That's what happened in Galatia in the days of the apostle Paul. His opponents in the church could say they were only teaching Scripture; they required believers to do things that they could reference with chapter and verse. But by using the Bible wrongly they had put themselves under God's curse. By confusing promise and obedience the Galatian teachers were perverting the gospel and troubling the souls of their hearers. In his letter to the church he has asserted that "a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ" (Gal. 2:16). But it remained for him to spell out the relationship between the law and the promise of the gospel, something we must learn as well.
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