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Claim tested: Galatians vs. The Hebrew Bible: Paul’s War on Sinai
Galatians does not merely protect Gentiles from forced conversion. It trains readers to see Torah obligation as danger, circumcision as loss, Sinai as slavery, and Abrahamic inheritance as something now governed by Paul’s gospel.
If Paul only said non-Jews do not need to become Jews, the dispute would be smaller. Galatians goes further. It turns the Gentile question into a larger anti-Torah theology, then uses Abraham, curse, promise, seed, Spirit, Hagar, Sarah, Jerusalem, and circumcision to make Torah testify against itself.
