Didn't Nero launch Christianity?

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Actually Paul constantly claimed that he has received his knowledge directly from Jesus. Meaning no apostles and no actual Jesus, no oral tradition, that it all came down from heaven direct to his ear, either via another vision of his Christ or the Lord God himself; like

Well, Jesus was already dead when Paul converted, so clearly he never spoke to the historical Jesus. But it’s clear in Paul’s writing that the he viewed Jesus’s as a real historical person, born of the flesh, with an earthly mother, killed by earthly rulers. He even met and interacted with his disciples and brother.

So your suggestion that Paul didn’t believe in a historical Jesus is just plain stupid. I doubt you’ve even read the epistles, and just parroting nonsense you picked up from others.