“It is a response to a challenge from Christian Jewish missionaries who had come to Galatia to improve or correct Paul’s gospel and to ‘complete’ his converts by integrating them fully into the heirs of Abraham, through circumcision, and by thus bringing them under the law.” This is the situation Paul addresses in the letter. He is writing to Christians, newly converted from a Gentile background, who are being encouraged by false teachers to add to their initial response to Christ in faith these