Galatians 3 (I), Tues., 5/26

1-3
•What's Paul's attitude here?
•How did Paul know Galatians already received Spirit? How do we receive the Spirit?
-CCC 1266

4-5
•What kind of experiences with the Spirit do you think Paul is referring here?
•How would the Galatians answer Paul's question? Why?

6
•Why did Paul choose Abraham as the example?
-Gen 12:3, 18:18
•Can you give the examples of Abraham's faith?
-Gen 12:1-9, 15:1-6
•Where were Abraham credited as righteous?
-Gen 15:6
•If an act of faith resulted in justification for Abram, was he justified only once?
-Heb 11:8-19

7-9
•Who are the “true sons of Abraham”?
•What scripture did Paul quoting?
-Gen 18:18
•Can we reject God's blessing? Can we lose God's blessing? How can we regain God's blessing?

10
•Paul quotes Deut. 27:26. What is the big problem facing anyone who expects to be justified by keeping the law?
-CCC 580

11
•Where in the Bible Paul was quoting?
-Hab 2:1-4

12
•Referring to Lev 18:1-5, Why does he say “the law does not rest on faith”? According to the Leviticus passage, what does the law rest on?

13
•Why is this such a logical place for Paul to mention Jesus?
•Read Deut. 21:22-23, Why is this quote from the Old Testament especially powerful to further Paul’s line of argument?
•Is there consequence if we break the law? How do we get away from God's curse?

14
•How does he describe the “blessing” that the Gentiles will receive?

Galatians 2, Tues., 5/12

1-2
•To what does Paul attribute the decision to make that trip?
•Why did he need to make such trip?

3-6
•What might be the teaching the false brother brought in?
•Who were “those who were reputed to be important”? what did they do about Paul’s teaching?

7-10
•Why did they approve Paul?
•After giving Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, what one thing did the apostles want them to do? Why has this always been an abiding concern in the Church?
-CCC 886

11-13
•Who were “some people came from James”?
•What happened? Why Paul call it “hypocrisy”?
•How did Paul know Peter was wrong?
-ACT 14:21-28; 15:1-35
•Can Pope make mistake? In what situation, the Pope is infallible? Do this meet such conditions?

14
•What Paul means in the question he confront to Peter?

15-16
•What is the definition of “Justification” ?
-A translation, from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Savior
-CCC 2019
•Is it the same as “in the state of Grace”? What’s Grace?
- CCC 1997
•What are the difference between Catholic and Protestant about Justification?
-Catholic: a process, Synergism, Can be lost via mortal sin.
-Protestant :a Event, Divine monergism, Cannot be lost

17-19
•What is Paul’s new relationship to the Law of Moses?
•When does a person die to the law?
-Rom 6:1-4

20-21
•What seems to be the distinguishing characteristic of Paul’s new life in Christ?
•If a person wants to cling to the old system of legal perfection, what becomes of the work of Christ?