A Brief Synopses Of Galatians 1:10-2:19:
Jesus taught Paul personally and told him personally what to say,(no man taught him the correct way).
Even before he was born God chose him to be what he was now. Something very special happened to Paul on his way to Damascus He had Christ revealed inside him.
I think that means a realization of who Jesus Christ really was deep inside him, which must have been very enlightening.
No need for him to consult with the other Apostle, he had Jesus tell him personally what to do.
After more than 3 years as a convert he traveled to Jerusalem and only met 2 Christians, Peter, and James, Jesus’ brother. No one that was a Christian in Judea knew what Paul looked like they only knew about him converting, but no one knew his face.
Even 14 years more passed and then for the first time other Christians of Judea saw Paul.
He came there not to get permission from prominent ones among the Christians but to give these prominent ones correction.
He met with the Pillars of the Church in private to explain to them what God was doing through him and to teach them more than they already knew about God’s good news.
He had to do this privately because of false brothers.
Who were these false brothers?
From my reading it seems that they were sent by the Jewish religious leaders to SPY on them and to keep them enslaved to the Law.
Even the WT don’t do that!! Or wait a minute, maybe they do I don’t know.
Paul fought these false brothers, he knew who they were, and… it must have been very obvious to him.
Because he talked privately to the Pillar’s the meeting recorded in Act 15 about Circumcision went relatively well except for maybe some little reasonable compromises, that were not that important.
It seem that Paul maybe walking on pins and needles around these prominent ones when they are on their turf, there in Judea, but when he meets Peter in Antioch and sees him being less than loyal to Christ he gives Peter a hard and very embarrassing reproof(OUCH! That’s gotta hurt)
Paul sees very clearly how wrong it is for Christians to keep the law as necessary for salvation.
Some Christian’s may have felt,.. I’ll keep both in case Jesus’ death wasn’t for our sins and he just died because of circumstances,.. and not for forgiveness of sins.
Person like Peter who had personally seen the resurrected Christ and then to advocate observance for the law out of fear of man might have serious percussion’s on the faith of other believer’s who didn’t see Jesus before and after his resurrection.
Peter was also not showing love for the whole association of brothers Jew and Gentile alike, by shunning Gentiles in a limited way.
This is of coarse,just my interpretation of these verses and I maybe wrong on several points If I am feel free to post.
If I missed some important point, please chime in.
If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
