So, Paul, tell us how you really feel!
What's going on here is that Paul is furious that there are people adding conditions to the Gospel. They're saying you need Jesus and something else (circumcision in this case). It makes Paul furious to hear this, because it leads people to question their faith, and so they start adding conditions, and once you start adding conditions, you're drifting away from the purity of the Gospel, the sweet simplicity that we are saved by Christ alone. There is no other need. The pure Gospel is a gift of grace from heaven. When we take the Gospel and start adding things to it -- then it's a religion of human invention, and that can be used and abused by humans. The Gospel isn't ours to use -- it's a gift to share, but we don't own it, we can't claim it as our own -- we can only bask in its glory and reflect that glory from one selfless heart to another.
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