In my opinion, Paul’s work as a missionary could reasonably categorize him as a promoter or developer of the movement. However, claiming that Paul founded Christianity or altered the original movement to the point where it was unrecognizable lacks substantial historical evidence. Hokum and worse yet, bunk.

Start digging beyond the grave diggers delights into what scholars and focused minds have found. Not from the lions den but where the likes of research discovers truths. Or at least, facts found in time while no doubt never a certainty but solid proof more exists than the likes of Gospels in conflict with themselves.

Paul was a man for Paul with a notion or two about what fools and snake oil can create when merged.

Paul as an opportunist. Hard stop. And a man of all seasons who pivoted and morphed as did his narrative of what was to what became a religion for the masses. The underclass is who he targeted because Pagans of the day where easily mind twisted. Unlike the Jews with their rituals and constancy although at their outset they too were pagans.

Paul introduced the tropes that became the foundational truths of Christianity. Tropes [ resurrection, ascension and return] of the Greeks. And Egyptians. And to his own progenitor, the Zoroastrianism and Mithra religions.

Without the tropes he could not distinguish his words and their intentions from the local Jews who had their own myths and power structure to contend with.

Follow the money. And power of the day. And the likes of the culture in need of hope. Where does this void lead to? To the resident opportunist working the edges and bounds of reason that the Romans eventually merged with. In 325 the followers of "Christ" merged the works of Paul into a consensus and became the church of power called Christianity.

Why did Paul become a Roman citizen? Why did he become a Jew? He was not born into a formal Jewish family. It abided by some of the Jewish rituals, itself was not a Jewish family. Where did his money come from to purchase Roman citizenship? Where and why? And there... is much more. Just dig. And Jeremy be patient. And take heed. And try to avoid staking claims to the wind.