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Without Paul and John, Jesus would essentially just be a Jewish reformer who rebelled against central church authority, like Luther. The only things that set him apart are the claims to divinity, like healing the sick, the resurrection etc.

So if you reject them, you should basically just convert to reform Judaism which is morally indistinguishable from Christianity. Liberal Jews reject the supreme authority of the Rabbinate, like how Jesus rebuked the Pharisees. Which is why Protestants are culturally very similar to Jews, in their emphasis on materialism and “this world”. They reject the Catholic non-biblical cultural traditions, rooted in European philosophy.

So essentially Paul is the one who removed the Jewish material spiritual character from Judaism. Nietzsche writes about this.