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That’s 13-14 letters of the NT you’re calling into question, as well as a God-given apostleship. We all have weird theories, but that one isn’t harmless like so many others. Find a harmless one (or two...or three, lol).

You say its a theory but the actual words of Paul is wrote down by himself, he tells the Galatians of what Peter did or supposedly done.

Jesus said in plain words that if you have a matter against another you should go to him alone.

You can read in Mathew 18 :15 through 18 to see for your self what Jesus said.

You say theory? no, theory has nothing to do with it.

People are calling Peter a hypocrite just because of Pauls accusation.

but that one isn’t harmless like so many others. >>>>>>>>>>>

What Paul wrote to the Galatians was not harmless to Peter, in fact people still use it to day to put Peter down, which is what got this issue started.

Maybe Paul did not really know who his friends were as his friends in Asia departed from him and obviously did not think of him as an apostle.

1 Corinthians 9:2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet
doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship
are ye in the Lord.

2 Tim 1
15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me

Revelation 2
2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Ephesus was in Asia was it not?

Pretty obvious that it was the ones in Asia especially Ephesus who did not believe Paul was an apostle.

You can think of this as theory if you like but

Peter was the only apostle who mentioned Paul in his epistles and recognized him as a brother, can any one truly believe that God would inspire a man to slander the only brother who had a good word for him?

Peter is the only friend we can know by reading scripture that Paul had.