Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought

[Jehanne]

Your views do not represent modern scholarship; you are an extremist, as far as higher Biblical scholarship is concerned.

Ok.... I think that a number of Scholars who would agree (although probably ones you ignore).  But if they disagree, then I ask what is the reason for their different conclusion?   If you have a good reason to believe otherwise, then I'm happy to listen.  Vague appeals to authority not so much.

I think that's where you go wrong; there is absolutely nothing wrong with embracing the well-established positions of a community of scholars who, unlike you or me, are experts in their field of study.  After all, what is the alternative?  Someone like William Lane Craig, who may just be an covert fraud?