- How do you address non-Christians who express the fruit of the spirit (Eg they are patient)? Has God given these fruit even to those who belong to the flesh?
- Assuming the quality of our relationship with God is independent of our actions, can we not grow in the depth of our relationship with him? Why talk to him? Why learn about him/get to know him? Doesn’t God love us when we obey him/live like Jesus? Does this have no effect on our relationship with him?
- What actually is “goodness”? How is it distinct from the other fruit of the Spirit listed in v22-23?
- Are those who commit the works of the flesh in v19-23, who will not inherit the kingdom, unsaved because these unrepentant works nullify faith, or is it that they still have faith but these works somehow disqualify them from eternal life?
- Is Galatians only referring to adding the Law onto salvation or can we apply it to other nuances the apostolic denominations (Catholic/Orthodox) add onto “Faith alone”? How do we know we can use Galatians to discern the truth of these practices if Galatians only uses examples from OT Law?
- In terms of guidance, how do we view Acts and how God directly instructs Paul etc?
