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Nowhere in God’s Commands or prophecies am I commanded to filter God’s Commands or prophecies through the lens of Paul or the lens of the pauline epistles. Neither am I commanded by Jesus Words to filter Jesus’ teachings through the lens of Paul or the lens of the pauline epistles.
Filtering God’s Commands and Jesus’ teachings through the lens of Paul corrupts and alters God’s Commands and Jesus’ teachings.

The christian construct and ideal of their cosmic and universal “Jesus Christ” is as paradigmatically different from the historical Galilean Jew as Obama is paradigmatically different from George Washington.

Two thirds of christianity places Paul’s teachings equal to Jesus teachings and the other third of christianity places Paul’s teachings above Jesus’ teachings. All of christianity places Paul’s teachings above God’s Word.
It was men who placed Paul’s teachings next to and equal to the teachings of Jesus.

When christianity realizes those things, then it will have a foothold, a basis for a winning argument against Atheists everywhere. Until then, the fractured ignorance of the “universal” religion will continue withering away.

I’m going to go ahead an brag that I read God’s Words and Jesus’ teachings through the lens & filter of God’s Words.....just like Jesus tells me to do in his teachings.
Doing so leaves nothing unanswerable, there is no “mystery”, there is no fractured logic, and there certainly isn’t any hint of hypocrisy.
Just like it’s not required by God, I certainly don’t need any other “lens” or “filter” in which to understand Jesus’ teachings or God’s Word.

You’re already viewing these teachings through a lens, as they are revealed to you through an account written by several different people. I assume you have not received a vision of Jesus, so you already are seeing things through a lens. I, like you, assume the lens is clear because it is all we can do. We take the word of those who were with Jesus Christ on good faith, because (at least in my opinion) someone who had been a devout follower of the Risen Son would have no reason to pervert his word.