The Pastoral Epistles Aren't Forgeries

13 letters in the New Testament claim to be written by the Apostle Paul. But some New Testament scholars like Bart Ehrman say that 6 of them are blatant forgeries, notably 1st and 2nd Timothy. This puts the Christians in an awkward spot, as forgery is…well… just another way to lie, which goes against the 9th Commandment. And that’s allegedly what we have in our New Testament: one big fat lie about who wrote the Pastoral epistles.

But if the critics’ arguments turn out to be weak sauce, then it’s not the New Testament that loses credibility but its detractors.

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See also Chris Date, By Command of God Our Savior: A Defense of the Pauline Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles, https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cg...

Kenneth Berding, Polycarp of Smyrna Tells Us Who He Thinks Wrote 1 & 2 Timothy: Apostolic Fathers #4, https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book...

William Paley, Horae Paulinae, https://archive.org/details/horaepaul...

Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts, https://amzn.to/3ecUFDi

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