Paul announces in Galatians that God has acted, that Christ’s death has delivered people from the clutches of the old age, that a “new creation” has been established (6:15). The Galatians by their fascination with circumcision and what it represents are reverting to “this present evil age” (4:8–9). Third, the death of Christ happens “according to the will of our God and Father.” Tragic and horrific as the crucifixion was (and Paul recognizes it as such), it did not occur outside the divine will.