What is the evidence of salvation according to Galatians 3:2?
Galatians 3:2 identifies the Holy Spirit as the evidence of salvation. Paul asks whether the Galatians received the Spirit by works of the law or by the hearing of faith. The answer is the hearing of faith, not law-keeping, because faith comes by hearing, and hearing involves no work.
Les explains that Galatians 3:2 asks whether they received the Holy Spirit, the evidence of their salvation, by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. The answer is not by keeping the law; no way. He cross-references Romans 10:17, where saving faith comes by hearing, not by works. Hearing itself is not a work. This matches Paul’s emphasis that salvation is faith plus nothing, and if it were otherwise, Christ died in vain.
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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In Galatians 3:2, did the Galatians receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:2 asks whether the Galatians received the Holy Spirit by works of the law or by hearing of faith, and the answer given is that they received the Spirit by hearing of faith, not by works.