What does Galatians 2:19 mean to you?

Answer 1

Paul stopped trying to be saved by keeping the law. Instead he trusted in Christ who had died to pay the law's demands, and who would enable him to live a life pleasing to God.

Answer 2

Reading it in context with the rest of the first 2 chapters of Galatians, Paul is basically saying that the old laws of Jewish observance were no longer relevant. It did not matter anymore if one was Jewish and kept Kosher or if one had previously been a pagan. Accepting the teaching of Jesus was the saving grace that would bring one to the truth. See the same book, Chapter 3, paragraph 28-29. We are all equal to God, through Christ.
If Paul was an agent of the Roman government, or more likely the Roman religious established faith and power structure, he certainly messed with our concepts of equality between the sexes no less than the Hebrew teachings did, and not much more than certain hypocritical Saints of the Church whose teachings influence Christianity today. No form of authority has survived without being corrupted. The Roman Catholic Church and its Holy See are not any more perfect and have much to be ashamed of.
Whatever Paul really thought or believed, the writings attributed to him are no more consistent than those of the rest of the Bible, which is to say they may well have been re-written by countless editors or some parts of his real writings dropped.

Answer 3

The Romans were well known for assimilating anything that they could not beat militarily. They recognized that Christianity had grown so large that they could not possibly stamp it out.

So they did the same thing that they always did when they found themselves in this position. Paul was roman, one of the first roman undercover agents if you will to gain prominence in the Christian hierarchy. His job was to subvert the faith correct the teachings so they were more palatable to roman tastes and take over and control as much of the leadership as possible. His cover story about being blinded and thrown from his horse was designed to play right into the Christian idea of a forceful Jesus that was the defender of the faith.

He was accepted by most of the Christian world and eventually trumped Peters wishes on many issues. Apparently everyone thought that Jesus had made a mistake in selecting Peter to take care of running the faith because Paul was and is still taken quite seriously.

Christianity is barely recognizable today if you compare it to what Jesus actually taught. If you read closely you can still see occasional glimpses of Jesus’ teaching in and among the nonsense that was overlaid on it by Paul and others. The roman conquest of Christianity took quite some time, but was completed in the 4th century around the time of the council of Nicea when the current bible was compiled.

Constantine also had one of these miraculous encounters with Jesus that lead to his conversion, but oddly continued to worship roman gods in private right up to his death. In public of course he was a true Christian.

The new faith that replaced the one Jesus entrusted peter with was called the universal, or Catholic Church. It is better known as the Roman Catholic Church. I guess you could call that a hint.

A truly brilliant plan actually. Made possible by the efforts of a roman double agent named Paul who called himself an apostle, but never actually met Jesus. For his loyalty and meritorious service he was later killed to cover up the truth.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

It means to me that when i got saved I died through the law that I might live again with God in might life,which I do I am a totally changed person with God living in me it is so awesome only a true believer can understand, cause if you have Him you know it!!!!

Answer 5

Jesus died to the law. So we must do the same and follow the same paths Jesus sent for us when he was in the world.