Greetings Mike,
The rest of Galatians does not support your assumption. The
subject matter of this epistle was
to removed believers in Jesus Christ
away from the doctrine of
free justification by grace alone without the works of the law, meaning,
any work man has an active part in in order to be accepted before God and for that person to inherit eternal life ~ this is basically the summary of what constitutes
another gospel, which truly is
not another, since there is
one true gospel sent down from heaven recorded for us in the word of God, that believers are to trust in, preach, and defend with God's working through them to do so.
True believers
cannot be removed from the everlasting and unchangeable love of God to them in Christ, of which their calling and faith is a fruit, effect, and evidence;
nor from their covenant interest in him, which is immovable and inviolable;
nor from a state of justification, in which they openly are, who in the effectual calling have passed from death to life, and
so shall never enter into condemnation; nor from the family and household of God, in which they are;
no, nor from the grace of calling with which they are called by God, and
which has eternal salvation inseparably connected with it; but this must be
understood doctrinally of their removal from the Gospel of Christ, though not of a total and final one. It is observed by some men of old, that the word used is in the present tense, and shows that they were not gone off from the Gospel, but were upon going, so that the apostle had some hopes, yea, confidence of their being restored,
Galatians 5:10. And besides,
though such as are truly called by grace cannot be finally and totally deceived by false prophets and false teachers,
yet they may be greatly unhinged by them, and may fall from some degree of steadfastness in the doctrine of faith, which was the case of these Galatians: but what increased the apostle's surprise, and aggravated their sin and weakness, was, that they were
"so soon" removed from the simplicity of the Gospel; he having been with them but a few years before, and preached the Gospel to them,
which the means of their conversion.
What he did encountered were children who were part of the generation of vipers,
same father, different children, but the same generation of vipers, who had never been generated, and
never would, Paul prayed that they would be cut off.
Galatians 5:12
“I would they were even cut off which trouble you.”
They had
no choice in this matter once the apostles agreed among themselves, they were not even allow to speak at the first council of the church to decide the truth of the scriptures...... what was to be believed and preached among them.
Galatians 2-5:4 reveals it all to us. I'm sure these three plus chapters will be considered later.
