Gretta, I agree - as do all liberal Christians who've studied it at all - that the Petrine epistles don't come from the historical Peter. Um, at least I think that's what I think.

The author does display an untoward preoccupation with the name, however, which might argue otherwise.

John, Marcion is much too late to be in a position to document anything of Jesus' time. I have the impression that the Moshiach/Man-of-Sin contest ... solely involves those folks who believe in both, whereas I believe in neither.

P.


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