Paul vs. God, Jesus and The Disciples

When reading the Bible, one of the first things we learn in the book of Genesis is that God made the following covenant with Abraham (pbuh):

Genesis 17:¹⁰This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.  ¹²And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. ¹³He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

We learn from these verses that this covenant was meant to be everlasting.  As we continue reading into the New Testament, we also discover the following:

Luke 2:²¹And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

So here we see that Jesus (pbuh) was also circumcised, in keeping with the covenant God made with Abraham (pbuh).  And continuing on to the book of John, we also learn:

John 7:²²Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Here Jesus (pbuh) reaffirms the necessity of this covenant.  After making it past the gospels, we come to the books of Paul, but here, things suddenly change:

Galatians 5: ²Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.  ³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.  ⁴Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Galatians 2: ⁷But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

Paul now says that circumcision is not necessary.  This causes a problem:  Was this covenant meant to be everlasting?  How can Paul single-handedly end an everlasting covenant from God?  So how did the Apostles take this?  Let us find out:

Galatians 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; ¹²for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction. ¹³And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

Galatians 2:¹⁴But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

So, obvious by the above verses, they did not agree with Paul.  So what does Paul do?  He calls them hypocrites and not upright.  These are apostles that were with Jesus (pbuh), and Paul, who never in his life met Jesus (pbuh) is calling them misguided hypocrites.  Keep in mind that Barnabas was the teacher and protector of Paul, peter the rock (Matt 16:¹⁸And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. ) And James the Just.  Regarding James, the following comes from wikipedia:

 

The Gospel of the Hebrews fragment 21 relates the risen Jesus' appearance to James. The Gospel of Thomas (one of the works included in the Nag Hammadi library), saying 12, relates that the disciples asked Jesus, "We are aware that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?" Jesus said to him, "No matter where you come [from] it is to James the Just that you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist."

And..

Matthew 13:⁵⁵Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Even though Jesus (pbuh) obviously held high views of the apostles, and even appointed James as the new leader to take his place after he went away, Paul comes along and calls them misguided and hypocrites.  Paul seems to contradict everyone, from God, to Jesus (pbuh), to the apostles, to many of the prophets and Old Testament and Gospels.  Yet, Christians accept him, mainly because he made his way into the Bible.  Jesus (pbuh) and his apostles never left a Bible, that came much later.  What is presented above are evidence from the very Bible many Christians use.  It seems many take the words of Paul above those of God, Jesus (pbuh) or any of the other prophets.  Still, we have no proof, no prophecies, no warnings of Paul.  On a final note, I'd like you to consider the following:

2 Corinthians 12:  ¹It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. ²I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. ³And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)  ⁴How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.  ⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

Let's imagine that one day you ran into a man that said to you he had a vision, and that he heard "unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter", and then he proceeds to tell you that the voice commanded him to end the laws that Jesus (pbuh) lived by his entire life, the law he said the following about:  "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 15:18).  What would you think of this man?  Who would you think the vision describes?  Who would you believe that this mean truly saw?