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>I believe that, if God wanted all of us to think the same way, there wouldn't have been 12 disciples with such different personalities and points of view.

That generally works for me. It is the very heart of a Prophets work but fits poorly with any institutionalized church which relys on it's "high priests" to maintain absolute unformity and conformity without benefit of added enlightment over time.

PS, I'll take Paul. Without him there would be no grace-based Christianity, only an abberent form of Judaism, IMHO.

I understand and would add that it is good to investigate what we are told:

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of the Jews.
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. - Acts 17:10-11