some critical questions for the Galatians (new testament)?

Question

Anyone helps me create some critical questions for the Galatians (new testament). I need to ask some questions for discussion but my questions are too easy to answer.

Answer 1

I could but that would be cheating.Besides that would cut down on the study time you really should be doing prior to class now wouldn't it.

Answer 2

Date and Destination, Ask about the two main views.
The date of Galatians depends to a great extent on the destination of the letter. There are two main views:

The North Galatian theory. This older view holds that the letter was addressed to churches located in north-central Asia Minor (Pessinus, Ancyra and Tavium), where the Gauls had settled when they invaded the area in the third century b.c. It is held that Paul visited this area on his second missionary journey, though Acts contains no reference to such a visit. Galatians, it is maintained, was written between a.d. 53 and 57 from Ephesus or Macedonia.
The South Galatian theory. According to this view, Galatians was written to churches in the southern area of the Roman province of Galatia (Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe) that Paul had founded on his first missionary journey. Some believe that Galatians was written from Syrian Antioch in 48–49 after Paul’s first journey and before the Jerusalem council meeting (Ac 15). Others say that Galatians was written in Syrian Antioch or Corinth between 51 and 53.

Ask why the Judaizers felt ceremonial practices were still binding.
Judaizers were Jewish Christians who believed, among other things, that a number of the ceremonial practices of the OT were still binding on the NT church.

Theological Teaching
Justification as below.

Galatians stands as an eloquent and vigorous apologetic for the essential NT truth that people are justified by faith in Jesus Christ—by nothing less and nothing more—and that they are sanctified not by legalistic works but by the obedience that comes from faith in God’s work for them, in them and through them by the grace and power of Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 3

What is the impact of...?

Galatians 2:16 We know that no one is made right with God by obeying the law. It is by believing in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus. That is so we can be made right with God by believing in Christ, not by obeying the law. No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.
17 We are trying to be made right with God through Christ. But it is clear that we are sinners. So does that mean that Christ causes us to sin? Certainly not!
18 Suppose I build again what I had destroyed. Then I prove that I break the Law.
19 Because of the law, I died as far as the law is concerned. I died so that I might live for God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ. I don’t live any longer. Christ lives in me. My faith in the Son of God helps me to live my life in my body. He loved me. He gave himself for me.
21 I do not get rid of the grace of God. What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace...

Paul writes quite a bit in the letter about the position of the law in the thinking of a Christian. That is one MAJOR key to get across.

Effective discussion sometimes uses leading questions to start, but growth comes through probing into the thought which leads a person to a given answer. Try starting from an erroneous position, like looking at the book from the point of view of the "Judaizers" who taught that everyone must obey the law to be saved. This has the secondary effect of teaching people to recognize and correct religious error using the scriptures.

While at university, I was on the leadership team for a small group Bible study. The leaders would meet beforehand and go over the material to be taught.

We were usually handed a list of "sample questions" and with most of the leaders it was very obvious when they shifted from one question to the next. Several times after I had led our group's discussion, the other leaders would comment that I had only asked the first question but had managed to lead the group through all of the material, usually having participants ask questions instead of me having to interrupt discussion on one topic and shift to the next.

That is very much a gift, but I know I only was able to do it by knowing the material very well and carefully crafting my subsequent answers and "sub-questions" to lead the group to the desired point.

Answer 4

This Book [Galatians] discusses the issue of grace, faith and works. This is the Book where the "Law Keepers" (those saved by their works - apart from grace) hate to read and twist its meaning. Paul pulls no punches here and poses THE question to those, who profess conversion: Are we saved by grace through FAITH or by our works [ Commandment keeping or by the Law] ? Only the truly converted [spiritually mature] can adequately answer this one. My advice to you is this. Pray for insight and inspiration then, get to work on your preparation for your discussion period.

Answer 5

Ok here's one. Is it possible for a Christian to turn away from God and lose his salvation by falling from the grace of God?

Gal 5:4

4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
NIV


Here the author is speaking to CHRISTIANS in the church in Galatia who were once religiously Jews but who had accepted Christ as savior. These Jews were returning to their Judaistic teachings and were attempting to be justified through the law of moses rather than through the grace of God. Scripture here says these CHRISTIANS have been "alienated from Christ" and have "fallen from grace." We can easily understand that if someone falls from a pickup, then they are not going to get where the pickup is going. If we fall from grace we are not able to get where grace can take us. I don't know how someone can get to heaven being "alienated from Christ".

Answer 6

Paul contrasts liberty and bondage. What manner of these are spoken of?