My daughter wants to know. Even as a biblical scholar, I don’t have a good answer.
Season after Pentecost | 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a; Psalm 42 and 43; (Isaiah 65:1-9; Psalm 22:19-28;) Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39
These three stances toward God are the beginning of faith.
Jesus, too, encountered a naked man living with mental torment. He responded quite differently.
Galatians 3 does not sound like something that could be constrained by pragmatism elsewhere.
Sometimes the terror we know is more tolerable than the peace we can’t imagine.