Sometimes by the most gross perversions imaginable. Such Christians are not "followers of Jesus" as they so often purport. They are followers of Paul. This is all fact.
Your problem is not as much with Paul as it is with Jesus the Son of God. The misdirection towards Christ's apostle simply does not disguise your deeper rejection of Christ.
This to me is a man trying to bribe his conscience. "I have this and that good reason to disbelieve the words and work of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels."
Rather than the obedience of faith you disbelieve and bribe your conscience by trying to bring something ELSE as a rationale to God.
I wish you could see that this is Cain offering his rejected worship to God all over again. From earliest days of man on earth, they refuse to bring what God requires in favor of bringing what THEY can boast in as their own offering.
This phenomenon is summarized by the following from the OP:
The minute a kingdom hermeneutic comes up..., one colonizes Jesus’ kingdom hermeneutic by a justification hermeneutic. That is, we make Jesus talk Paul.
You cannot blame Pauline theology for your utter rejection of Christ's own teaching and prediction of His redemptive death and resurrection.
"Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many." (Matt. 20:28)
Before we get to the epistles Christ's OWN words tell us what it means for Him to give His life as a ransom. You reject this.
Furthermore, that so much help was rendered to the church by the apostles, especially Paul, was God's way. The irony of your complaint is that the church should not trust Paul to interpret Christ but we should instead trust YOU.
Sure, that is the irony. When you come discarding His resurrection as mythological, you are in utter competition not only with Jesus Himself but with the apostles as well.
We have to come to YOU for the inside story on your favorite "red letters" - a selective collection, non-miraculous, seeming to uphold your presupposed humanist philosophy.
Or in more down to Earth terms from the OP in the "Red Letter Christians" thread: ...
I have not read much on that thread so I reserve comment.