[Elsie]

Why would St. Paul confuse his converts in this way?

 

That's a darned good question!!

 

  2 Peter 3:16 niv
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

[MurphsLaw]

Why would St. Paul confuse his converts in this way?

That's a darned good question!!
,br> 2 Peter 3:16 niv He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Hmmm... Scripture... Hard to Understand? Easy to distort?

Free for all !!!

After re-reading the 2nd most famous 3:16….
I would hope
You should realize you are making an argument AGAINST sola scriptura.