Most christians are paulites and don't know it. All of the post-gospel work is about the foundation for the catholic church and the dogma structure and behavioral norms to define what christians are.
Christ's messages do not address these things, but they are necessary for a movement like this (supposedly). So in come peter (who didn't get the message yet founded the church) and paul who had his own idea about what it meant to be christian.
Paul spent his whole life as Saul manipulating himself into positions of power and even persecuted the christians to a great extent. I don't find it surprising that an individual flip flops over to the rising power after having a self described "transformation" on the road to damascus. It seems very convenient given the politics of the time and his past behavior versus something divinely driven.
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