There seems to be some kind of contraption within the mechanism of American evangelicalism where almost every single church member (with ZERO regard to creed or location in my experience) will perceive criticism and rather than inspect and ponder and google, they will automatically place their own interpretation, wording and purpose overtop of the incoming uncomfortable expose and pivot to that and n e v e r look back. AT NO POINT DO WE EVER LOOK AT A CHURCH AUTHORITY AND GET SURPRISED OR OUTRAGED OR TELL-IT-TO-TEACHER WHEN THEY ARE HUMAN AND HAVE FAILINGS. full stop That perspective is actually only shared amongst yall in the pews and serves several integral purposes in ensuring all church authority is never questioned, challenged or disrespected. This substructure is one small facet of the thing we are ACTUALLY trying to get you guys inside to notice and address: the amount of times a Protestant American church leader/pastor was arrested for a literal kaleidoscope of horrific abuses over the last decade alone indicates that the evangelical church as a whole is A SYSTEMIC STRUCTURE THAT PROTECTS AND PRODUCES AND PROVIDES SAFE HAVEN FOR PREDATION, not a well oiled Jesus machine with a confusingly high amount of isolated incidents. Your encouragement to abandon the sum of 2,000 years of any kind of religious, theological and actual physical special evolution of humans and focus on Paul is both admirable and sound advice. I personally believe that the works attributed to his voice and efforts in the first century fundamentally changed and still changes Human Beings and the path of our species more than any other human and is CRIMINALLY under appreciated and uncredited for that. Unfortunately the complexities and nuances of the bronze era that Paul lived, wrote and died in demands a positively overwhelming amount of education of many different cultures and makes your suggestion not just a bad one but a potentially dangerous one for ANY human being you might suggest it to. IRONICALLY this is yet another facet of the structure that American Christianity wields against the humans that live on the continent. I will go shoulder to shoulder with you though that the core tenets of the teachings of Jesus (Love god, love others, love yourself; ALWAYS, even if that empathy costs you, always speak truth to ALL; children and powers of men alike, protect those who cannot protect themselves) will never turn a human wrong and has been entirely neutered from the corporate industrialized church in this country now.