Except that as a very learned man, Paul would have been a good writer.
As demonstrated, many people could write.
The scribes were professionals....similar to printers in our day. They did the "official" copies.
The evidence for Paul's eye problem being the "thorn" includes these ASSUMPTIONS:
1. Injuries to his eyes from beatings.
2. The use of "large letters" in Galatians as an indication of eye problems.
3. The blindness caused on the Road to Damascus.
Well...I'm gonna get offline...it seems we won't solve our differences here.
I still think I'm right. I find no problem with Paul's authority being intact if he's dictating to someone.
So maybe it was his eyes. Either way, and regardless, the point I've been trying to make is, that when the books were written, Paul couldn't write them himself. Someone else was taking these down. It's no different than admitting that Mark didn't write Mark...it makes it no less true and no less authoritarian. Paul's lack of ability to write properly, it seems to me, suggests the guy couldn't write really well. I still think that the language seems to indicate "Hey, look! You know how terrible I write! Well...look at this!" Maybe it was blindness that made him unable to write. But I can write, and even were I to go blind tomorrow, I don't think that, say, 20 years from now, were I to write something, I'd say "look at how crappy and giant my letters are." If anything I think my writing would get smaller, assuming others could see it.
Anywho, it's been fun. God Bless.