Rather, they asserted that the way to receive the benefits of this Christ was through the time-honored method of joining God’s covenant people, that is, by becoming “proselytes,” converts to Judaism. Thus they urged the Galatians to believe in Christ and keep the Old Testament ceremonies. That people would teach such a hybrid religion is not a product of our imaginations. Scripture clearly describes such teachers. For example, these teachers made trouble for the Christians in Antioch of Syria by