I have been following the life of Paul as of late and would like to know if anyone else is seeing what I am seeing? To my knowledge the bible is not written in chronological order, whether or not this would effect my findings I am not sure. But here goes: Paul started out, after his initial conversion as a babe in Christ in his understanding, some of his admonitions to the congregation reflect some of that, such as: starting out baptizing in water, and some of his encouragements to the brethren seemed a bit naive to me such as: if you see your brother standing in sinners way you should go to him in all gentleness and admonish him being careful as to not be overtaken in the same such sin. Further on you hear a bit different advice, such as: you need to be baptized in the HOLY SPIRIT,if you do not have the holy spirit you do not belong to Christ, work out your own salvation, carry your own cross,Christ is the head of each man, Christ is able to make him stand, Christ is lord of both the living and the dead, let he who is doing good keep on doing good, let he who is evil go on doing evil.Salvation is the work of the lord, on the inner man.The power of god unto salvation. Certainly no effort to personally convert any one as he matured. It seemed to me that he realized as time went on how insignificant he personally was ( as we all are).