[NYer]

.... which is?

[7MMmag]

To quote the good Mr. Ratzinger himself (who's scholarship and understanding I hold in highest regards):

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

In the previous catecheses on St. Paul, I spoke of his encounter with the Risen Christ, which fundamentally changed his life...

[bold emphasis my own]

And further from the homily, or address;

"This distinctive manner of knowing also exists today: There are learned individuals who know many details of Christ, and simple people who don't know these details, but they know Christ in His truth: "The heart speaks to the heart." And Paul essentially says that he knows Jesus in this way, with the heart, and that he knows essentially the Person in His truth; and then afterward, he knows the details."

The ORAL TRADITION which you seemed to have so triumphantly trumpeted about, was NOT the way in which the Apostle Paul first, and originally "came to know" the Lord. So says the Pope. I have no argument with that distinguished personage, on these points, as to the clearest meanings of the texts.

Interestingly enough, you seem to have a difference of opinion or view with him.

Your own attempt to claim "oral tradition" (as you pretty much did in your post#4, here) at best, confuses the order of events. At the worst, it totally left out the most important part!" Which prompted my comment to you.