Message not Messenger (Galatians 1:1-9)

Paul expresses astonishment that the Galatians are deserting the gospel. Paul views a loss of the pure grace of the gospel to be a more radical problem than what Corinth was dealing with. Though the Galatians would seem far more outwardly impressive and mature than the Corinthians, their spiritual peril was in fact far greater; hence Paul’s scathing opening words in Galatians 1:6 and following.