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Also Paul never even met Jesus, yet speaks as if he did.
He must've gotten tired of persecuting christ-followers so he decided to make up a story about his conversion experience in order to co-opt the movement, claim and assert his authority over it, and instill it with Roman-style systems of patriarchal morality...
Well within Christian canon, he essentially met Jesus’ spirit many years after he had died. But obviously that only works if you actually believe in the supernatural aspects of it
You can even believe the supernatural aspects of it and think Paul specifically was full of shit.
Paul is fanboying about Jesus and it became canon
That semantic is kind of like saying a page in the Narnia books was faked. Of course it was, it was all faked. The important thing is that some believe in it and that the different opinions of different authors get sorted as canon and noncanon by the various churches.
Eh, I think you're undercutting your own point here. Paul was a real guy, and actually wrote stuff. A page in a Narnia book very much can be fake, if it was written by someone other than Lewis Carrol but attributed to him. Likewise, if a writing attributed to Paul was not actually written by Paul, it's a fake.
There actually isn't a whole lot of evidence that Paul existed outside of the old copies of the new testament.
There also is no one true copy of the bible, no one true church.
So unless historical evidence such as preserved letters or records from ancient Rome resurface, everything about Paul from start to finish in the bible is equally legitimate; it's not really.
I think if I have to spell out my previous example more in-depth, you can't point to Aslan talking about the old magics as him lying, as the book it's mentioned in treats it as canonical fact in a work of fiction.