In other words galatians insists on christian liberty from any doctrine of salvation that requires human effort in addition to divine grace 1 thessalonians congratulations and comfort ad 50 51 pauls letters to the church in thessalonica are best known for their teaching about the second coming of jesus christ and associated events. In other words the radical paul is being deradicalized sanitized and romanized his radical views on for example slavery and patriarchy are being retrofitted into roman cultural expectations and roman social presuppositions watch then how it works in terms of slavery i leave patriarchy for my next blog in this series on paul. Many of pauls letters created rules and rituals that go against this last covenant we are all under this is where i find the conflict the statement that all the words in the bible were inspired by the holy spirit is not correct even paul or someone using pauls name makes reference in his letters that this is him speaking and not god. Ephesians also refers to most of the other letters of paul in many ways it seems like a summary of pauls ideas written by a disciple of his and brought up to date for the church of his own time. Pauls mission and letters carrying the good news of jesus christ to non jews pauls letters to his fledgling congregations reveal their internal tension and conflict