One common rebuttal when giving my testimony of walking out the Torah is Galatians 5:4. I’ve covered Galatians as a whole before and how you have to understand Paul’s terminology in this book to understsnd the premise. One of those terms is “circumcision”. He isn’t speaking against the act, nor the Law.

We see him going to Galatia in Acts 16 & 18. In Acts 20, he visits James and James tells him of the rumors being spread about him that James knows isn’t true. Those rumors? That Paul was speaking against the Law and circumcision.

If Paul was to have truly not taught against these things in Acts, affirmed he didn’t with James, then later wrote a letter to Galatia saying the exact opposite; wouldn’t that make Paul a liar and untrustworthy?

Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:15-17 that Paul is hard to understand and that the unlearned will twist them into not obeying the Law.

So, if Paul isn’t speaking against the Law or circumcision, what is he speaking against? The same thing Jesus/Yeshua was in Mark 7. Those groups that are hanging onto traditions and just trying to get someone to circumcise into THEIR faith to show they are growing. We have an account in Acts 15 with this group as well.

One of the traditions to join into Judaism then, and from my understand still today, was you first had to be circumcised.

It is a lot like baptism in many churches. How many church gatherings or posts have you seen where they are boasting “we baptised X amount of people today”. What are they doing with those people afterward? Are they growing them and teaching them to walk in the faith? Or just looking for the next person to baptize?

The point of Galatians is this: Don’t be another number for some man and their traditions. Choose the freedom Yeshua showed you in HIS walk: the Law. It is God’s plan for our best life (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

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