Quote:the authentic ones of which are near universally dated to the 50s by scholars (i.e. a couple of decades after Jesus death). Not sure where the 1600 comes from.
Again, the inflating of pious blather into "evidence." Where is the "evidence" for this claim? The paul-shit seems to appear in the record in the wake of Marcion's (c 140 CE) "heresy." Before that, no one ever heard of him....in spite of a few attempts to write him in to later forgeries.