Why do Christians need an answer for everything?

Yair. Try explaining that to the average Christian, not just fundies. I was raised Catholic and always believed the four named disciples actually wrote the Gospels.

I’m assuming Saul is meant to have actually written written the epistles (letters) attributed to him. Excluding the known forgeries.

It strikes me as a bit odd that Christians of the day believed the hallucinations of an erstwhile persecutor as gospel (so to speak). What made him so special?

Richard Carrier argues the historicity of Paul is likely precisely because he was so ordinary.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/7643