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The certainty for Pauls' intent is beyond credulity - which is why the attempt to insert uncertainty, after two millennia, is so very obviously an exercise is eisegesis.
Indeed he was - this is one of the most basic facts that we know about Paul - that prior to his conversion he was a trained expert in Judaic law. He studied under Gamaliel, for crying out loud, and was entrusted with missions on behalf of the Chief Priest.
1. This is a strawman argument, and not even a good one. What Luther wrote more than a millennia later is irrelevant to the fact that if Paul had wanted to discuss pedophilia, he would have discussed pedophilia and the term wouldn't be arsenokoites, but paiderastia. Luthers' writing would no more change Pauls' intent than these posts would.
2. The German for pedophilia is not Knabenschänder but Kinderschänder.
See above response.
Good point and Bad point. The Canonical Gospels were written first century, as were Pauls' letters, and while they were all pretty much instantly regarded as Canon, official Canonical efforts didn't get going until the second century. The epistles of Paul were considered scripture by the time of 2 Peter being written, for example (2 Peter 3). Pauls' letters were written 20-35(ish) years after the death of Christ, and so yes, there is a Bible from that era, in the sense that the Bible is the collection of canonical books. But by the fourth century the New Testament was already pretty established throughout the Church. Like Creeds, official declarations of Cannon were mostly in response to heresy or division.Interestingly, the very first Canonization effort was done by a heretic - Marcion; who tried to cut everything down to the "core" books that he thought were the most right (he hated the Old Testament and didn't like Jewish carry-over into the NT) - and that list of Core Books included the Epistles of Paul. But once we get much past 140 AD, all 27 of those books were already accepted across the Christian church, and only about a small handful were later disputed (authorship of Hebrews, for example, and Peter II)
