Grace, - Not - Law

Paul's testimony was the most glorious example, that salvation is by God's grace and not by man's merit or' works of the Law. He spoke of his advanced learning in Judaism and zealousness for his ancestral traditions, which were superior to many of his contemporaries. Paul's intense hatred of legalism was because he himself had been entrapped in its web of deception and it pained him to see these dear folk in Galatia being so brutally deceived by this legalist teaching that places men back under the curse of the Law, after having been liberated by God's grace through faith. (St. Paul was converted to Christ after spending years, trying to destroy the followers of Christ)