Class on Galatians by Jon Tandy

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Class on Galatians by Jon Tandy

Recently, I have written a commentary on Galatians and turned it into an online class, “The Book of Galatians—A Key to Paul and the NT.”

I believe that Galatians is the key to unlocking the gospel as taught by the apostle Paul throughout all of his writings, which comprise about half the New Testament. I show that Martin Luther’s and other Protestants’ interpretation of Paul as teaching a “grace without works” is incorrect, because it misses the point about what “works” he was specifically referring to. In order to have a better answer to them, we need to more fully understand what Paul was actually saying. Yet, although we are not saved by the performance of righteous works, we can’t be saved without them. Salvation consists of becoming a new creature in Christ.

You can view the class on Waldo Avenue Restoration Branch’s Livestream site at the following links:

Galatians Class #1
Background of Paul and Galatians, and the key to Galatians using Paul’s allegory in Galatians 4.

Galatians Class #2
What was the “other gospel” that Paul was concerned about? How the first church conference and Paul’s conversion radically shaped Christian theology.

Galatians Class #3
Why is the Law of Moses a curse, how does it frustrate the grace of God, and contrast against the work of the Spirit?

Galatians Class #4
The Schoolmaster and the Heir – two seeds, two laws, two mediators, and two covenants.

Galatians Class #5
Bondage vs. adoption. What happens to a marriage covenant when one party dies? And how do they enter into a new covenant?

Galatians Class #6
Liberty of the gospel and the Spirit. Walking in the flesh vs. the fruit of the Spirit.

Galatians Class #7
Bearing one another’s burdens and becoming a new creature. Paul, James, and Martin Luther—friends or foes?

Galatians Class #8
Agreement between Paul and James. Fruit doesn’t make the tree, but the tree produces fruit.

Galatians Class #9
Sanctification is salvation, but whose righteousness is it? Paul’s final answer: become a new creature.


Along with this class, please see the following Book of Mormon Roundtable. This presentation goes into more detail about the fulfillment and end of the Law of Moses, and the fact that it was replaced by the New Covenant through Christ’s atonement.

The End of the Law and the New Covenant

Jon Tandy