(July 28, 2012 at 6:44 pm)Justtristo Wrote:(July 28, 2012 at 9:30 am)Drich Wrote:
So is it in your Best estimation that the majority of those people who knew of Christ lived in Galatia (Northern turkey 6400+ miles) from jerusalem??? And that paul did have to state that God was born of woman as a living and breathing man because they would have known... 64/65 hundred miles away in a time when people had no way of knowing these kind of things unless someone like Paul Told Them...
Because, there was a mass exodus of believer and witnesses of Christ to Galatia...
Actually the distance between Northern Turkey and what is now Israel was some 800 miles, which your estimate is off by a factor of 8. Also in the Roman Empire (which Galatia was a part of) there was a very good transport network, which allowed a degree of mobility unparalleled until the age of steam ships.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_far_is_Gal..._Jerusalem
Plus you are missing the point. You asserted that there was no reason for Paul to state the 'God was indeed born of Woman.' I countered with the plain fact that 2000 years ago unless a missionary like Paul came into the region and told these people all about Christ their would have been no other way for them to have known these facts.
That is unless you have some evidence to support your claim, like a mass exodus of Christian/Jews or even any other missionary work in that area before Paul established the first church their.
what you are alluding to is the ablity for people to spread rummor. To which all the more reason for a letter like the one we are talking about to clear up all of the foolish whisperings. Which is probably exactly the reason Paul opens the letter like he does.
