According to Galatians, the law was given because of transgressions. Since transgressions have been in the world since Adam, doesn’t that mean the law is for us too!?
Paul does not say that the law was "given," he said that the law was "added."
Galatians 3:16-19
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Here in the context, Paul is dealing with Abraham and his physical seed. This Seed ends up being the Lord Jesus Christ, a Jew, and Israelite, a physical seed of Abe.
The context of this passage again deals with that Abrahamic covenant! Paul says that the law was not "given" but "added." Added to what? Added to the Abrahamic Covenant that He gave that people 430 years earlier.
Paul's whole premise is that, by adding the law to the Abrahamic covenant, God is not disannulling it, or making what He promised Abe void.
All Paul is saying is that God gave that law temporarily!
By the way, even though transgressions were in the world/nations, the context of Galatians 3 is not the sins of the whole world, the context is regarding Israel/Abe's physical seed!
It was added to their promise! God never made any of this with gentiles!
Psalm 147:19-20
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with many nation: and as for his judgments, they [the nations/gentiles] have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Romans 2:14; 9:4-5
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen
Ephesians 2:11-12
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
So the law was not "given" to the whole world...it was "added" to Israel's promises.
Hopefully this
helps!
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