saul of tarsus (the so called 'saint' paul, who wrote most of what litteralists think of as christianity, AFTER; he was BORN after, the book of revelation) was perhapse the first BIG TIME promoter of christianity. he was also its first big time exploiter and quite probably (the only real controversy is whether that was his intention all along or not) PERVERTER of the intent of its teachings. when the nyciean confrences (which ultimately determined what writings to include and which to exclude, from the collection that eventualy, once printing and bindery were invented much later, came to be bound togather as the christian 'bible', or simply 'book') there was considerable controversy, actualy outright physical and deadly violence, over what to make of 'st paul' and his writings. one faction insisting on their being herrisy (they WERE after all, written AFTER revelation, which itself clearly states the invalidity of anything being added to christian text after IT was written). the other (which also gave us the presumption of a 'trinity', something never mentioned nor directly suggested in earlier manuscripts), obviously having won out, if only by brute force. (the above IS historicly doccumented by the way, by contemporary chroniclers of the time, somewhere arround the year 325 or so of the christian calander) =^^= .../\...
This is probably the answer to the question why so many Christians are eager to flood you with quotations from Paul’s letters but very moderate in referring to Jesus himself.
