I’m pro Bible. I don’t read it in a literal way.
Proverbs 1:6.
Paul called himself an idiotes, one who was filled with gnosis. "We speak wisdom among the perfect or initiated," he wrote, "not the wisdom of this world but divine wisdom, in a mystery, secret, which none of the Archons of this world knew." His knowledge was not that of the lower powers of the world, but of the supercelestial Spirit within each human being. He shaved his head at the Nazarene city of Cenchrea because "he had a vow". The Nazarenes did not cut their hair except when offering it at the altar of initiation. Soon he travelled throughout Asia Minor, Macedonia and Greece teaching the gospel, the good news, to gentiles – those of non-Judaic birth. He taught that the old nature is destroyed by faith – inner illumination – and the new nature emerges in purity.