Enslaved to the Gods

Does Paul rebuke Gentiles for observing the biblical calendar?

Bust of Claudius, Naples National Archaeological Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius)

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D. T. Lancaster

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Does Paul rebuke Gentiles for observing the biblical calendar? If not, how do we understand Galatians 4:9-10?

"How can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years!" (Galatians 4:9).

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