The letters written to Paul are usually seen as “responses” to problems that occur throughout the Gospels of the First Thessalonians, First Corinthians, and Galatians. Paul provides advice and tries to provide some type of solution to these problems that he finds. While finding solutions and providing advice for all of these problems he comes across, he also suggest new notions for modification, for the people’s sake. The first letter we come across, the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians, is the oldest book in the New Testament. Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians from Corinth around fifty-one CE.
He wrote 1 Thessalonians to the church in Thessalonica, a port located on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea. In this letter, we find the …show more content…
It is noted that “some scholars regard Galatians as the earliest of Paul’s Letters; others place it during the mid-fifty’s CE. In this Letter of Paul, he writes a “bitterly polemical letter” to the Galatians. This letter reflects a very critical moment in the early Christian movement’s struggle to define its mission and identity. The problem Paul responds to in this letter is based off of the Galatians new Jewish, religious beliefs. Paul had founded the all of the churches of Galatia, but he now finds that his work has been jeopardized by anonymous Jewish-Christian teachers. These Jewish teachers, were urging former Pagans, who had converted to Paul’s views, to now convert their views to their Jewish-Christian beliefs. Paul main problem with this situation, is that it is of great threat to “the truth of the gospel.” Paul states, “As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!” Paul is obviously trying to remind the Galatians there is no other Gospel, then the one he has told to them that came from God, himself. As a result, Paul writes a sincere letter to try to make the Galatians stray away from these religious
He wrote 1 Thessalonians to the church in Thessalonica, a port located on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea. In this letter, we find the …show more content…
It is noted that “some scholars regard Galatians as the earliest of Paul’s Letters; others place it during the mid-fifty’s CE. In this Letter of Paul, he writes a “bitterly polemical letter” to the Galatians. This letter reflects a very critical moment in the early Christian movement’s struggle to define its mission and identity. The problem Paul responds to in this letter is based off of the Galatians new Jewish, religious beliefs. Paul had founded the all of the churches of Galatia, but he now finds that his work has been jeopardized by anonymous Jewish-Christian teachers. These Jewish teachers, were urging former Pagans, who had converted to Paul’s views, to now convert their views to their Jewish-Christian beliefs. Paul main problem with this situation, is that it is of great threat to “the truth of the gospel.” Paul states, “As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!” Paul is obviously trying to remind the Galatians there is no other Gospel, then the one he has told to them that came from God, himself. As a result, Paul writes a sincere letter to try to make the Galatians stray away from these religious