Symbolism in iconography and metaphors in Matthew 10 don’t change the canon of Scripture or validate Jefferson’s scissors.
You’re pivoting to esoteric tangents because the core argument collapsed. Whether I can explain halos in paleo Christian art is irrelevant to whether Paul’s epistles are authoritative Scripture.
Christ commissioned Paul. Peter affirmed Paul’s writings as Scripture. The Church received them as such for 2,000 years.
Your gnostic rabbit holes don’t overturn that. They just prove you’d rather chase mystery than submit to revelation.
If you’ve got a substantive theological argument about Paul’s authority, make it. Otherwise you’re just throwing smoke grenades.
