Natural Law wrote:
“Saint Paul is venerated by the Catholic Church and his writings are part of the revealed Word of God. What the Church does not accept or promote is the notion that Paul’s writings are on par with or superior to the Gospel as revealed by Christ Himself. When read in support of the Gospel Paul is glorious. However, when presented as a stand alone revelation they are misleading. The sin does not lie with St. Paul, but with those who would corrupt his work.”
Sorry, but this is nonsense, except for the last sentence, which condemns who? All Scripture is stand alone. All Scripture supports all other Scripture. All Scripture is on par with all other Scripture.
Now to be sure, one can recognize a certain structure and organization of Holy Scripture, which structure and organization are inherent to it, and thus of divine origin. There is also a certain order of presentation, but the Author of the Holy Scriptures is the One who presented it in such order. Yet all Scripture is “God-breathed,” and, as we were reminded not many posts before, profitable for instruction etc., etc. To set Paul against, say, the Gospels is surely wrong. But to set the Gospels against Paul is just as wrong. If that is not true you are saying, whether you realize it or not, that God either contradicts Himself (not possible!) or that some parts of Scripture as not as divine as other parts (and who, pray tell, decides that?).
No, Paul and Peter, John and James, Luke and Matthew, Mark and, yes, the unknown author of Hebrews as well, all speak as one; and all are in complete agreement with the One who is the focus, content, and concern of the whole of the Scriptures and of their every part. He is their Lord, not they His. They spoke as He willed, and did not in even the most minor of points veer from His truth. To try to divide the Holy Scriptures is the work not of Christ but of Antichrist. “Scripture cannot be broken.” (John 10:35) Whose words are those?
You have stumbled upon one of the irreconcilable differences between Protestantism and Christianity. To claim that the letters of Paul are equal to the actual teachings of Christ Himself diminishes the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. It makes Him an unnecessary side story in the Revealed Word.
I am a Christian, not a Biblican, Paulican or Protestant precisely because I believe that the highest order in the Revealed Word are the teachings of Jesus. The rest of the Bible is important only in how it prepares for and supports those teachings.
History is full of the record of charlatans who have claimed that God spoke exclusively to them and they, for some price or concession, will pass it along to you. Jesus broke from that practice and let others, eye witnesses, relay His teachings. To put the out of context versus and letters of Paul on par with the direct quotes of Jesus makes a charlatan of Paul.