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Neither Jew nor Greek? How Galatians 3 Welcomes the Nations without Erasing Israel

For many Christians, Galatians 3 feels like the final word on Israel: if Gentiles are Abraham’s offspring by faith, doesn’t that end ethnic and national distinctions? Over time, this reading has drifted into a common assumption—sometimes called “replacement theology”—that the church simply takes Israel’s place. But reading Paul this way strains the story of Scripture and mutes the covenant character of God. The Bible does not pit God’s faithfulness to Israel against His mercy to the nations. It shows both flowing from the same promise.

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