Why did God set Paul apart from his mother's womb and call him by grace?
God set Paul apart and called him by grace so God could give him the revelation of Jesus the Son and so Paul might preach Him among the Gentiles. This pleased God and was not taught by man; it came from the ascended Lord after His death, burial, and resurrection.
Les explains that Paul did not receive the gospel from man, nor was he taught it by man, but by revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. During Paul's revelations, Jesus Christ was in glory. Everything Paul writes concerning doctrine today comes from the ascended Lord, after His death, burial, and resurrection. Until Jesus went to the cross and died, He was not the object of faith to the main run of Gentiles. Once He finished the work of the cross and revealed His plan of salvation to Paul, it became that gospel Paul preached to the Gentiles. In verse 15, it pleased God, who separated Paul from his mother's womb and called him by His grace, to reveal that God could give this man the revelation of Jesus the Son, and that Paul might preach Him among the Gentiles. Paul then did not confer with flesh and blood or go up to Jerusalem.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
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Why did God call Paul by His grace according to Galatians 1?
It pleased God to call Paul by His grace in order to reveal His Son in him, so that he might preach Him among the heathen.