/lit/ - Literature

Catholics have "infallibly" stated that he did. Close reading disproves them though.

Tim, 2 Tim, and Titus are deemed to be pseudoepigraphical because the style and vocabulary are different from the seven undisputed letters, internal evidence shows concerns with Church issues which didn't arise until the 2nd Century, they were not in Marcion's canon and they contradict some of the views shown in the undisputed letters.

The oldest extant manuscript of Pauline epistles, P46, does not include the Pastorals (or have a long enough lacuna for them).

The earliest attestation of the Pauline epistles, the Marcionite canon of the early 2nd century, did not include the Pastorals; there are no signs Marcion even knew of them.

Some early Christians rejected the authenticity of 1 and 2 Timothy, according to Clement of Alexandria and Origen.

The Pastorals often use key terms to mean something different than they do when Paul uses them. (E.g. "faith" being the Christian religion itself in 1 Timothy rather than a relational term as in the Pauline writings)

The vocabulary used in the Pastors resembles second-century Christian vocabulary and the situation of the church itself in the second century. (For example, the Pastorals assume a church hierarchy already in place that clearly does not exist in the time of the earlier Pauline epistles.)

The Pastorals elevate texts to a higher level of sacrality than the Pauline epistles.

1 Timothy's theology on the law and teachers of the law is at odds with Paul's.

Views of marriage (especially the requirement of marriage for bishops) in 1 Timothy are at odds with Paul.

Views of food abstinence in 1 Timothy are un-Jewish and at odds with Paul.

Charisma delivered by laying of hands instead of baptism.