Galatians 3:23-29

23Before the coming of this faith, we

were held in custody under the law,
locked up until the faith that was to
come would be revealed. 24So the law
was our guardian until Christ came that
we might be justified by faith. 25Now
that this faith has come, we are no
longer under a guardian. 26So in
Christ Jesus you are all children of God
through faith, 27for all of you who were
baptized into Christ have clothed
yourselves with Christ. 28There is
neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave
nor free, nor is there male and female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If
you belong to Christ, then you are
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise.
 1. According verse 23, What was the
function of the law?

2. How do we become children of

God?

There is a consensus that verses 26-

28 were part of a baptismal formula
that Paul mentions to affirm the idea of
a community with out of
discriminations. In that sense the
historian Jesse Lyman: “Christianity
did not make distinctions between
men. Nor did it among its members or
in the work they did. Even a slave
could be chosen as a bishop in the
church. This was an disgrace for the
noble, the philosophers and the ruling
classes. The Romans considered
Christians as "egalitarians", anarchists
and disrupters of the Social order. That
is, enemies of the state.

What is your opinión about this?

In the dimension of faith, this passage

acquires more strength, if it you read in
the context of Greco-Roman society
highly stratified based in the merits and
in the selection of classes and in the
jewish society that they thought
themselves superior because they
have the God’s law.
3. How should our interpersonal
relationships be?