^That's fine with me - personally, I come down on the side of Paul being historical. But, even if he wasn't, I don't see Christianity as having evolved much differently than it did.
The authorship of the Pauline epistles doesn't matter all that much either - someone wrote those letters to the early congregations. Fighting about who it was (more accurately who they were) is at this point little more than an historical curiosity. It's like claiming that The Odyssey wasn't written by Homer, but by another Greek with the same name.
A difference which makes no difference IS no difference.
Boru
The authorship of the Pauline epistles doesn't matter all that much either - someone wrote those letters to the early congregations. Fighting about who it was (more accurately who they were) is at this point little more than an historical curiosity. It's like claiming that The Odyssey wasn't written by Homer, but by another Greek with the same name.
A difference which makes no difference IS no difference.
Boru
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