You know, I was reading Quora a couple nights ago at dinner as is my habit. Somebody had answered a question about a minor point of early Christian history. The subject was interesting but didn't have particularly impactful theological implications.

But oh, the fight that broke out!

At least four seemingly pretty well-educated Christians commented at length, each of them "proving" with scripture that the answer was wrong and quite probably even "blasphemous."

Then they started going after each other, each one "proving" that the other commenters were also wrong in how they interpreted scripture.

All of them claimed that interpreting scripture is not something one should even do. (Even as they themselves merrily interpreted away.)

Your apologist reminds me of them. He's convinced that everone who interprets the Bible differently than he does (and there are many millions of such Christians and theologians) is wrong and he can "prove" it. (Though I notice he doesn't even try. I wonder if he even knows how to make the arguments that rebutt Christian thinkers who believe differently than he does.)

Christianity hasn't split into thousands of different sects and denominations because you can just read the Bible and know what it means. Obviously.

When I add some complexity about this issue into the mix? A broad and very strong consensus among historical-critical New Testament scholars is it Paul didn't even write the pastoral epistles (the letters to Timothy and Titus) or Ephesians. They say different people claiming to be Paul wrote the letters after Paul had died to counter some of his points of view.

For a sketch of the accepted arguments against Paul's authorship of Ephesians, see:
https://ehrmanblog.org/did-paul-write-pauls-letter-to-the-ephesians/

Surprisingly or not, Catholic theologians really don't have a problem with acknowledging this, nor do mainline Protestant scholars, generally speaking. Seminaries teach this kind of thing, so it's widely known among pastors and other church leaders, but you rarely hear the scholarship coming from the pulpit.

Some people say it's too third rail, that pastors don't want to shock or offend their congregations, so they just don't talk about it.

Evangelicals and other fundamentalist, of course, vigorously oppose the scholarship. But they have no valid intellectual grounds for doing so.