My Sordid Sins

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That's the job of historians. They study various aspects of all the evidence, and look for differences in style, language and so on. Also dating them to see when they were written. I don't know too much about all this, but I'm sure Min can elaborate

So yeah, it's someone later pretending to be "Paul". Whether or not there ever was a real "Paul" is another question. There was someone who wrote the letters. How closely he actually matches what the letters contain, if at all, is going to be extremely hard to tell. I couldn't comment in this case. If he was real, I'd still expect the accounts to be exaggerated/edited.

Here's a little something by a leading biblical scholar:

http://youtu.be/63QvWMBxsW4