Doug Shaver

It could be so interpreted, if we presuppose that there cannot be any contradictions between Galatians and Corinthians.

He would be claiming in effect to have gotten the same revelation the others had gotten. I don't know how amazing that would be, since we have no way of knowing what the others were claiming had been revealed to them. There is hardly anything we really know, absent historicist assumptions, about what the Jerusalem church was telling its members or what its leaders claimed about the sources of their teachings.

Petergdi

Gospel, "euangellion", seems to have been widely understood as being about a victory or someone's reign. So I would put it that when Paul was a persecutor, he did not understand how Jesus could be the Christ or what sort of victory he had won. It was this understanding that he got directly and not from a human source.

Note that in the story of Peter's confession in Matthew something analogous is being claimed for Peter by Jesus. Peter did not learn that Jesus was the Christ from any human source.

Peter.

gurugeorge

Not so amazing necessarily - it's not a big stretch to posit two people independently coming up with the same way of "reading between the lines" in Scripture.

Nor (due to shared human physiology and psychology) is it that big of a stretch to posit similar kinds of visions and mystical experiences had independently in response to that kind of interpretation.