Paul has two main concerns in his letter to the Galatians, one theological and one practical. The main theological message is that a person can be justified only by faith in Christ—nothing more and nothing less. On a practical level, this means that Christians should use their freedom in Christ to treat one another with love and mutual respect since all—regardless of ethnicity, social status, or gender (Gal 3:28)—have been justified by the same means. Thus Galatians is less concerned with the question