Where do you get the infallible perpetuated Petrine papacy, Mary of Catholicism, NT pastors distinctively named priests, consuming human flesh to obtain spiritual life, praying to created beings in Heaven, etc. out of Paul’s writings?
What I should have said is that I can see some of the teachings of Paul in the Catholic Church which protestants are against and which I also do not believe in.
Mathew 23
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 4
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
It looks to me like Paul is warning them that he is their father in the Gospel and to be followers of him, not of Christ but of him.
The Catholic Church go by those two very things.
Peter never said to 'follow me'...That's puts Paul then as the first pope...I don't think the Catholics believe that...
Wrong. Paul told the same church,
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. (1Co. 11:1) And there are no real contradictions.