Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?

[Bucky Ball]

I suppose he's frustrated.  You checked him at every point.  Called him on the argument from silence.  Invoked the principle of parsimony (aka Ockham's Razor)...as in, why would someone try to forge an unknown author named Paul?  So he fell back on the same dodge we get from the Jesus mythicists, that even secular historicists are in the pay of Big Christianity.  Truth is, Christianity is really Paulianity, and religions don't just fall out of the sky or evolve like languages.  There's a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard somewhere that starts the damn thing.

You are flattering me too much here, and I like it, lol.

And yes, that's a great point you make here.

LOL

Not frustrated, (at all) just surprised that's all you two have. 
(LG you could have at least given credit to where you got "Paulianity" from.) That's not what YOU called it in this thread. 
I asked asked for support for an argument from "consensus." 
You failed, just as almost everyone whoever made it. It's a pet peeve of mine. No one really has any FACTS to support the argument, 
and in fact very few real historians who are not "economically obligated" even study Paul, (ie those WORK for church related institutions, from which they would be FIRED if they actually questioned Paul or Jesus). Then you both (falsely) claimed I was a Paul mythicist. I am not. You failed to read the paper I wrote years ago and put in the spoiler. 

So yeah, you both got it 110 % wrong. 

ta ta