(April 3, 2015 at 12:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: Now xtians love to rattle on how "Paul" dates from the first century but the earliest we actually hear of him in solidly datable references is in the mid 2d century and Justin never heard of any "Paul" either....although he did hear of "Paul's" sponsor, Marcion. The whole thing is very confusing because the handful of actual facts we have do not match up to xtian bullshit.
Can you elaborate on this? I thought the Epistles were dated to something like 20 years after the events described in the gospels. Or are you saying that it wasn't necessarily Paul who wrote them?
