[aruanan]

Now that we are on the subject of forgeries can you tell me who wrote St. Paul's Letters to the Colossians, the Ephesians, the Hebrews, the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians and the Pastoral Epistles. Does it really matter if they write the truth whose ultimate author is the Holy Spirit??

Note that in Hebrews there is no attribution of authorship. And the reason some offer for a non-Pauline authorship of a letter like Colossians is that it presents a Christology believed too advanced in its development to have been produced by Paul at that particular time in the evolution of Christian theology. Of course, at one time form critics thought they had made the definitive case for Pentateuch authorship.

[Natural Law]

"Note that in Hebrews there is no attribution of authorship."

Prior to the establishment of Canon authorship was a serious problem. There were many, many forgeries, many attributed to the Apostles themselves and many versions of the legitimate works recompiled from memory and using the literary practices common to the first century. That is one of the driving reasons to actually produce a Bible.

The Church Councils determined the Canon, not based upon attributed authorship, but upon the fidelity of the content when compared with the Apostolic Traditions of the Church in which the ultimate authorship of the Holy Spirit and the synergistic contribution to the whole of Scripture were the key factors.

Peace be with you.