"Paul" is unquestionably a gnostic in my view. I began reading the Bible, Authorized King James Version, as a young child. I received a call from the Lord in my salvation. I was called to read the Bible for myself with one of the goals to see the eternal whole counsel plan of God for myself through my own Bible study. So, this was my vocation from salvation before I was of age to read.
With a reading gift given me, I read perhaps 5x the speed of average. With my life dedicated to my vocation: I have literally read the Bible thousands of times cover to cover.
These are my qualifications. They're not the credentials man gives.
"Paul's" systematic theology declares that he is God and Christ; and all men are Gods and Christs. This is gnosticism. "Paul" declares that Adam was God and Christ whom Eve was created to subject to and worship as God and Christ. "Paul's" entire "headship" doctrine is GNOSTICISM: declaring men are "in the office" of "God and Christ" and women are to subject to and worship men as Gods and Christs.
The "blind spot" of men is pride in relation to women; and a desire by sin to be worshipped by women as Gods and Christs.
It is this weakness that blinds the whole church to the GNOSTICISM of "Paul".
Men have a real "skin in the game" to desire for "Paul's" false characterization of the relationship dynamic he teaches of same "to be true". Because it elevates them as "the rulers" over women. Which gives men a real turn on of the feeling of sexual power.
So, for Jesus Christ to "break that power": it's akin to taking a bone from the mouth of a dog with jaw clenched.
"Paul" states that men are the image and glory of God whileas women are the glory of man.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
That's full fabrication.
Genesis 1:26-27 declares Adam and Eve/male and female created in the image of God; jointly blessed equally as one given shared dominion over the rest of creation.
"Paul" rewrites the story stripping from Eve her creation in the image of God. Thus denying that woman is personally indwelt by the Holy Spirit. That's utter, complete denunciation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: making woman a "lower being" who has no direct personal relationship with God. Which effectually strips women of personal salvation in personal direct relationship with Jesus Christ.
In other words, "Paul" denies throughout his "epistles" that women have the same salvation as men.
Perhaps some "think" that "Paul" said women and men "have the same salvation" as they read letters they imagine were written to both women and men. However, all of "Paul's" letters are written addressed specifically and exclusively to men. In those letters, he assigns "salvation" in status of Gods and Christs solely to men.
Because in "Paul's" gnostic theological system: all men are Gods and Christs; and women are body parts created to worship men as Gods and Christs.
When, for example "Paul" declares men are the image and glory of God: he does not say men are "created in" the image and glory of God; but rather that men "ARE" the image and glory of God. This makes men equal to God and Christ. This declares men to be God and Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Jesus Christ in born again faith is God Incarnate in Spirit: meaning that Jesus Christ is literally the Image and Glory of God as God in Spirit in Person made a man. Image and Glory is Personhood. God is Spirit. To say that Jesus Christ is, for example, the Express Image of God the Father is to declare that Jesus Christ is God the Son. To declare that Jesus Christ is the Express Image of God the Father is to declare Jesus to be God; and to thus declare the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.
When we say "Jesus is the Express Image and Glory of God" we are saying, "Jesus is God". We don't have to say "Express" because if we say, "Jesus is the Image and Glory of God" Personally Himself, we are declaring Jesus Christ Himself to be God Himself in Person made a man.
"Paul" is using sophistry when he speaks of his hidden knowledge of gnosticism. If persons do not read carefully, they will "read in" what they "expected" a born again saint to say doctrinally; rather than reading what "Paul" actually communicated as a gnostic in doctrine.
When "Paul" said man is the image and glory of God, "Paul" literally declared all men to be God and Christ in Person in Spirit even as Jesus Christ is God and Christ in Person.
Aka. Jesus is the Image and Glory of God as God Incarnate in Spirit Being Christ; and man is, all men are, equally the Image and Glory of God as God Incarnate in Spirit Being Christ.
This is gnosticism.
Gnosticism can be defined at one level as denying the Exclusivity of Jesus Christ Being the only man who is God Incarnate in Spirit made flesh = Christ (or as "Paul" in gnostic docetism declares "in the form of") and instead declares all men to be God Incarnate in Spirit in human form = Christs.
This is the basis and foundation of all of "Paul's" declaration of the spiritual inferiority of women and the necessity of women to subject to and worship men as Gods and Christs.
We are not dealing with "just a few" gnostic books forged and implanted into the New Testament.
We are dealing with mostly gnostic epistles, books, and forgeries whose mission is to exalt "Paul" and promote the gnostic heresy and apostacy that men are Gods and Christs whom women were created to subject to and worship as Gods and Christs.
The very core of the sinful nature of man in fall is to exalt himself in the place of God falsely believing he is a God and Christ entitled to the worship and subjection of women.
The temptation, seduction, and deception of "Paul's" gnosticism is aimed at and grounded in the greatest temptation and seduction and deception man faces: the root and core of original sin.
"Paul's" entire systematic theology in foundation is gnosticism.
And the flattery that men are "just like Jesus" in the role of false gods ruling over women.
When, really, it's narcissism, the spiritual and narcissist abuse of women, and sin. It takes true growth by the Holy Spirit for men to outgrow the deception that their self-centeredness and self-exaltation in relation to women is "noble" rather than the sinful nature justifying pride while degrading, oppressing, using and abusing women in motives much less than pure.
And nothing like Jesus.
So, it's throughout all "Paul's" epistles. The systematic theology.
Much more I could point out.
But, how willing are men to see the truth? That they are abusive to women? Not chivalrous? Following 'Paul'? Receiving "Paul's" double standard salvation and spiritual state lies? That declare men the spiritual superiors of women?