Zeke
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Let's be liberal and say Mark or Matthew was written around 50, Paul's influence was well established, he was the first great charismatic preacher of the rapidly evolving Christian religion about Jesus. Almost the entirety of the NT is about Paul's conversion experience and his personal faith in Jesus as the risen Christ.
Jesus used families themes and sayings common to many religions that would received his missionaries.
But certainty about what was really penned by this Paul is to unestablished to really be able to blame or credit him. Those with the power to introduce the script are under the micro scope as well at that time, and so little is available to digest except opinion and insider leaks that I am surprised the bible ever seen the light of day.
Jesus is a ancient concept, if you want to worship that concept outside yourself than you have every right to do so, but I no longer except the need to do so, I am lives in me and I have no other Gods before "ME".