I accept him as both. Why deny his Jewishness though unless it is to promote your churchs agenda?
It’s absurd to reject Paul’s Jewishness, when he himself affirmed it.
Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Salvation is just being difficult so he can ignore your central point, which is that the Jewish Nation who were the keepers of the law and prophets, weren’t the RCC.