PAUL CALLED BY GOD

"I want you to know , brothers, that the Gospel I preached is

not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any

man, nor was I taught it; rather I received it by revelation from

Jesus Christ.

For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how

intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy

it. I was advancing in Judiasm beyond many Jews of my own

age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But when God who set me apart from birth and called me by

his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might

preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, nor

did I go to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I

was, but I went immediateley into Arabia and later returned to

Damascus."

Galations 1 : 11-17