I mean yeah the Pauline Epistles are the oldest and most "authentic" texts in the New Testament, they came first and the Gospels came after
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Back in the day the Jesus Seminar people tried to argue that the hippie progressive nice sounding stuff in the Gospels is the real Jesus and the scary violent apocalyptic stuff is later Christian insertion But this was mostly based on wishful circular logic
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Seems to me a scary violent revolutionary getting retconned by his later followers into a humans compassionate teacher is just as plausible a scenario as the reverse
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