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An adequate answer to that question would be a full-on reconstruction of Paul’s thought and practice. To characterize it generally, it looks like he and other early Christians had ritual, devotional, and meditational practices that haven’t been preserved into modern times, and the idea was that one would combine the results of those along with basically everything else one would observe about life into a personal gnosis of the Christian mysteries. But of those we only have a few hints.Infer, and what evidence?
Generally speaking, it’s not a program that’s going to make much sense to a modern mind. But it patently wasn’t a program of “believe what I tell you without any evidence.” That idea came very much later, developed from 16th through mid 17th centuries, by the second-wave reformers, mainly. First wave reformers, Luther and Cauvin, invoked it often but were more concerned with other ideas.