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Please, Do us a favor and OPEN YOUR BIBLE AND READ! It won't bite you if you do!
Paul was an apostle to the GENTILES. The letter to the Galatians was written from ROME.
He also referred to Abraham as "our father" in his letter to the ROMANS! Further more, The saved Gentile looks back to Abraham as his father BY ADOPTION before Abraham was circumcised.
The Jew looks to Abraham as his father by geneology.
The Galatians were a Gentile people who accepted Christ as saviour. Then came the JUDAHIZERS and subverted their beliefs, demanding circumcision and an obedience to the Law of Moses as they did in the book of ACTS:15.
Galatians:
Chapter 1, warns of false gospels given by ANGELS and MEN.Did not your "other gospel" come from a man who saw an angel?
Chapter 2, tells of Paul's defense of the freedom of the Gentile from the Law of Moses.
Ch 3, Paul shows how the Gentiles are children of Abraham BY FAITH and heirs according to the promise.
Ch 4 An allegory on the difference between LAW and GRACE.
Ch 5 If you accept a little of the law, you accept ALL of the LAW. The walk in the Spirit.
Ch 6 summing up.

There is an inward desire in man to show God man is worthy to be saved. Our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord. In Timothy 1:15 Paul pours out his heart "This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me."
And get over this sillyness about "creeds." A hymn can be just as much a creed as much as a doctrinal statement. Does your church have a "doctrinal statement"? It is a CREED!

The letters that he wrote were almost uniformly to former Jews who were living in those places. In fact, the epistles were written more often to correct misconceptions on the part of the people in those places.

With whom did he have the biggest problem? With the former JEWS among those congregations. The former Gentiles weren't saddled with the baggage of tradition that their Jewish brethren were.

These letters were written to correct the misconceptions of former Jews.

I'm sorry if you've been lied to, and if you've swallowed those lies, but I'm glad to set you to rights once and for all.

Our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord.

No, you are wrong. Our righteousness is a way of showing the Lord we are trying, which is what He commanded of us.

Our righteousness will NEVER be enought to save us; that's what the Lord's atoning sacrifice was for. But it is no more "filthy rags" to him than the efforts of a little child to walk and to talk, however clumsily, is not "stupidity and idiocy" to his parents. The parents are proud the child is beginning to show forth an effort, proud that he is on his way to progression.

That is how our Father in Heaven views us, with love and compassion and complete understanding.

The god you describe is a monster, and I want nothing to do with him. IF I'm going to swallow man-made lies, I'll instead swallow the man-made lies of, say, the Buddhists. At least there's peace involved.