(October 2, 2023 at 2:57 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(October 1, 2023 at 11:49 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: So all there is, is your "consensus of scholars". They are no doubt, all "Christians".
What non-Christians *scholars* studied an historical Paul ?
Are there any historical mentions of a "Paul" or "Saul" in any secular sources ?
Historical Paul is the mainstream scholarly view among basically all NT scholars, Christian or atheist or otherwise. Unless you think people like Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier are Christians now? Who are the NT scholars that don't believe Paul was a historical figure?
And why the stock argument from ignorance? Should Paul/Saul have been mentioned in any secular source at the time?
I figure since the historical Jesus turns on the authenticity of Galatians 1:19, Jesus mythicists can get what they want by being Paul mythicists too.