[RobbyS]

Well, one can accept Luther’s self-identification with Paul or not. I choose not, because Luther never met Paul. Luther even abandoned Augustine’s Interpretation of Paul. I’m almost with the psychologists where Luther is concerned: a single son and a demanding father, whose sole rebellion was to become a monk, and though he became a star, he could never been good enough to satisfy the Father. Then he cut the Gordian knot. Why worry: just let Jesus carry the load.

[invoman]

I’m almost with the psychologists...

Feel free, they seem to have stuff figured out?:

1 Tim 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

[invoman]

Well, one can accept Luther’s self-identification with Paul or not.

I've never met Jesus (in the flesh...in the common vernacular) , but I still identify with Him via Gal 2:20:

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Paul identified with Jesus....or not?

[invoman]

Luther even abandoned Augustine’s Interpretation of Paul.

I've never read that book. Is it good? Is it worth reading?