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This is probably the most difficult of all St. Paul’s letters, as well as the single-most disputed biblical book between Catholics and Protestants. This book, written by St. Paul, is the book from which Martin Luther built his doctrine of “justification by faith alone.” This study shows how Luther twisted St. Paul’s words to fit his own teaching and even added (in his Lutheran Bible) the word...

Abraham’s sign: circumcision. Because of this, we have our hope and confidence in God as Abraham did.” Paul’s reply to this, as we have been seeing in the previous five lessons, is that such confidence in circumcision, Mosaic rituals, and all other ceremonial “works of the law” is completely misplaced. In seeing circumcision as essential to salvation, says Paul, Judaizers have missed the entire message of Abraham. Paul’s point is simple and obvious: “We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
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