The original Christianity is not what is in the Bible

[Drich]

I have read the Bible more than once. Am I an expert? No. Far from. But I think I learned enough to understand what it all means.

I think some of what Paul wrote about was great. Christianity spread because it favored the lower-class, those who had been told they could not earn the rewards that the aristocracy were promised by their religions. And as time went on, and Christianity incorporated more pagan ideas and turned its back further on the Jews and favored the Gentiles, it spread even faster.

But as I said, if Paul knew great things that would convince people of Jesus' holiness (he was not considered God until John wrote his Gospel) why would he only talk about guiderules for life? Why say almost nothing about Christ's great powers? He mentions the resurrection, was nothing else of importance to him

How could Paul ignore these problems? These people needed the Meat of the word, not the milk that new or non believers need.
(That is why you want to hear more about Christ, You need Milk.) While someone who has heard and taught about Christ for the last 20 or 30 years needs the Meat of the word. Meaning information on how to live our lives under Christ.
1 cor
3 :1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Heb 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

This solid food analogy us used by Paul through out His ministry. Paul Feed the Spiritually mature Solid food to nourish the Spirit. The tentament of basic salvation are very important, but in of themselves can not sustain an on going faith. again the reason you do not like or understand the need for Paul's efforts is because you need the basics of salvation. Maybe once you spent a few decades on the basics you will understand the need to move past them, and apply christianity to your whole life.
When I read through the Epistles, I see a lot about "uncircumcision" and how women are not to be allowed to talk in church. Is that a guideline that Jesus taught? I hope not, because it has no place in my sense of morals.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted for them unto speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."

Funny how Christians always seem to forget the bad stuff. But it's there.
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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+9&version=NIV


Read it and weep, Drippy. Your boy had a "vision." Or rather the asshole who wrote Acts said he did which is a totally different thing. Today, we'd shoot the motherfucker up with thorazine and lock him up in a rubber room for a while.

Sadly, they didn't have thorazine back then. Would have saved us all a whole lot of trouble.

so your in your best estimation it is your belief that The one who raised himself from the dead could not communicate to Paul?