Galatians 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
We can tell pretty quickly here that Paul is very concerned about this church. He does not begin with his usual niceties and thanksgiving; rather he moves quite quickly into this sharp rebuke. Someone has been twisting the Gospel - the very message with which he had been entrusted with - and he is going to set them straight. He will move on in this chapter to give part of his testimony - what did and did not happen - to make it clear that The Gospel is not his, but God's Good News, and that if they are going to mess with the Gospel, they are messin' with God, not him. Actually, the letter will get much more intense, but Paul is giving them fair warning that they are not going to tip-toe around the truth.
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