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Great questions.

I am no theologian, so I can’t answer anything st this point.

A couple of the Gospels were written by the original 12 disciples, and Paul wrote many books. I’m assuming they were all dead within 30-40 years of Jesus’ death, so I’m not sure exactly when they were written and if they were saved for a time somewhere safe? I’d have to dig in and research that.

The Roman Catholic Church was a real problem until 1517, when someone had the gall to challenge them.

Anyway, the history of Christianity is fascinating and I’m sure there are thousands of details we’ll never know.

The Pauline Epistles were written 50-60 AD. Considering the average life span was about 30 years back then... Paul never met Jesus.

Interesting.

I’m of the belief that he definitely did.

According to Wikki, Paul met Jesus's brother (one of three brothers Jesus had BTW and he also had at least one sister) "Although Paul has relatively little to say on the biographical information of Jesus,[28] and never knew Jesus himself, in Galatians 1:19, Paul says he met with James, the "Lord's brother" (that Jesus had a brother named James is corroborated [29] by the Jewish historian Josephus, see below.) The epistles also show that Paul considered Jesus to have been a real person, (Galatians 4:4 which states that he was "born of a woman"), and a Jew (Romans 1:3 that he was "born under the law")."