You are wasting your words. He spent years studying Judaism. What made him an inerrant apostle of Christ was not his study of Judaism.
Perhaps Blogger is referring to this:
Gal. 1:15-18 : 15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus. 18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.
I think it most likely that Paul spent those three years in solitude in prayer, meditation and study on what Christ had revealed to him. Only after these years did he begin his full-time ministry.
I don't think so, FK. You need to really get acquainted with Saul. You will be surprised what you will find. He and the apostles in Jerusalem did not get along. Without +Barnabas, an early Christian "hot potato," +Paul would have been nowhere.
The Church "put up" with +Paul because he was the only one who could "sell" Christianity to pagan Greeks and Romans. The Christians were chased out of Jerusalem synagogues by 69 AD. The Church was dying in Israel. If +Paul didn't make it "palatable" to the pagans it would have died out.
Those are the real reasons for allowing Christians not to follow the Law, to forsake circumcision, to be released of dietary restrictions, and so on. +Paul made it up. Christ never taught that.
Of course, +Paul was not what the Church wanted, but it was do or die. Afterwords, the Church could not backtrack. Instead, there is a real possibility that some of the later "Paulian" Epistles were written as an afterthought. They differ a great deal from his earlier authenticated works.
The Church had to overlook some of +Paul's own personal interpretations such as his famous and very rarely mentioned verse:
"although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped..." [Phil 5:6]
+Paulian Christianity is distinct from the Christianity described in the Gospels. The Church had to find a way to mend them. It was a matter of survival.
Indeed. Paul was like the other Jews who needed to relearn Scripture under the paradigm given to the Apostles on the Emmaus Road
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Luke 24:27.
They were all used to reading Scripture through tradition, not a Christocentric lens, which is the way Jesus told the apostles it should be read. Paul supposedly needed three years of study and prayer to "unlearn" the bad teaching/tradition. That's never a bad idea.....