Teachings? Paul shaped the philosophical and moral stances of the church. Jesus' teachings were of transcendent awareness. Focusing on paul is to focus on the dogma and idols while focusing on jesus provides a vehicle to identity with christ/buddha/whatever.
I could quote many places where the gnostic gospels (unearthed in 1945) present concepts that directly contradict Paul's "all things of the world are refuse" approach to things. Instead of seeking unity with the notion of christ and becoming christ (see gospel of thomas), paul relegates us to a lesser and fundamentally flawed stance.
Paul offers enslavement in the world of sin ("flesh is weak") and some sort of subservient posture to the divine while Christ offers a path of transcendence of sin (read as categories of thought, not "doing bad things").
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