Sunday Discipleship – The Cross as overcoming legalismtranslated

From its first steps, the Church of Christ had to deal with the conflict between the Judaizers and the gentile Christians, with the former forcing the latter to faithfully observe what the Law provided regarding circumcision and circumcision. The protagonists on the one hand are the Apostle Peter and on the other the Apostle Paul, who in this passage from his Epistle to the Galatians on the one hand reveals the real reason of those who insist on the application of the above provisions, which is none other than "appearance" and the measurement of the influence on people's consciences, and on the other hand points out the need for someone to boast about the cross of the Lord, with what this means, and not for external religiosity that results from formal and external observance of legal provisions, explains Apostolos Nikolaidis, Emeritus Professor of Theology at EKPA & President of the Institute Agios Maximos o Graikos, in the show Sunday Discipleship.

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