Someone stole the body!

[Minimalist]

Uh-huh.... and where are those "authentic" letters?

The earlier ones, typically:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/

The later ones, such as the Pastoral Letters, are all forgeries.

But we don't have original copies of these so-called "authentic ones."  We have a prolific xtian writer in mid 2d century Rome who never heard of anyone named "paul" in spite of the fact that the story they put out was that "paul" was the guy who brought jesusism to the gentiles...including Rome itself a century earlier.  This writer's name is Justin.  Justin did hear of Marcion, though.  And the really funny thing is that it was Marcion who popularized the so-called epistles of this paul guy in the 140s AD.

The whole story reeks of bullshit.