What is Christianity according to Les?
Christianity is never a religion; it is God reaching down in mercy and grace to a lost human race. Religion, by contrast, is man's attempt to please God, prompting hatred, war, and legalism. Paul was saved out of the Jew's religion.
Les teaches that religion is the most awful term in the human language. Religion prompts hatred, precipitates war, takes people down the dark path of legalism, and is always man's attempt to somehow please God. But Christianity is never a religion. Christianity is God reaching down in mercy and grace to a lost human race. Religion never does that. Les points out that Paul uses the word religion in a bad light when he says he was saved out of the Jew's religion, because that is what he was—religious. Yet Paul hated the very name of Jesus of Nazareth as a religious person. In the succeeding verses, Paul deals with a religious Jew, the primary religion he had to confront.