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Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians is “spiritual dynamite, and it is therefore almost impossible to handle it without explosions,” says R. Alan Cole. “This letter is not one with a message simply for those of centuries earlier than ours, nor is it an Epistle that can be read in comfortable detachment without personal involvement. At every point it challenges our present-day shallow, easy acceptances...

The simple answer to this question is that the letter was written because of some serious problems that had arisen in Galatia. Paul never wrote letters without good reason, or, if he did, none such have survived. Normally, his letters were written either in reply to questions received from a church (1 Cor. 7:1), or to disquieting news that he has heard about a church (1 Cor. 1:11), or both. Even a letter like Romans, which at first sight seems to be of a more ‘casual’
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