(January 8, 2014 at 8:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And their evidence is ......................?
Hint: They always end up pointing to the bible itself as evidence of itself.
Roughly in the 150s AD a xtian writer named Justin wrote an apologia to Emperor Antoninus Pius. He never mentions anyone named "Paul." For that matter, he never mentions any gospels by matthew, mark, luke or john.
Think about that. We know the dates of Antoninus Pius' reign. 138 - 161 AD. That's a fairly short window as these things go.
Yeah, most of the Epistles of Paul are pseudepigraphy. It's to be noted that some of them are widely attributed to Paul. You're definitely right on that point.
IN SACULA SAECULORUM