This is a huge subject. It involves many of his words and phrases in his earlier works. His later works, which lack them, are suspected of being forgeries (possibly +Irenaeus). This is still being researched.
It is indeed strange that someone who did not know Christ in person would be elevated top be an Apostle of Christ by the Apostles -- yet the timing of him being placed in 'charge' of converting Gentiles comes at the time when Christianity as Judaism was dying rapidly.
I like you Mr 50 cent,and please don't take this the wrong way, :) but you tend to make statements and then don't really provide anything to substantiate these statements. You have done this about Jewish belief and now Paul.
What words and phrases? I should not have to do the research.
Paul says that he met Christ on the road to Damascas. He had Christian witnesses that attested to a great change that suddenly came about in him. He went from one day killing Christians, to the next being in shock and unable to speak. He stayed for about a year and a half with Christians while he recovered his speech. When he did go forth to preach, he had a power that was phenomenal in interpreting the Christian religion in light of the Hebrew religion. In fact, being a Jewish scholar, unlike say Peter, brought a deeper understanding of Christianity into being, and the Epistle to the Hebrews, is simply mind blowing in its theological implications. The times of the Gentiles must come in, and how would that happen without Paul? The Christian religion was meant to spread through the Greeks, not the Jews.
The Jews were preached to first, they had their chances, then it was preached to the Greeks, second..(Romans 1:16)
Paul learned of this plan to spread the Gospel from Christ directly and says so in regards to the mystery that was revealed to him.
Romans11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.