Who Wrote Book of Hebrews

No, it is not important to me.

We can't assume Peter was speaking of Hebrews (remember your words that Paul concluded Scripture.....which would place Hebrews after Peter's words ).

 

Kinda. Pauline authorship is not oral tradition in the sense it was believed by the early church and passed down. It became oral tradition with the Catholic Church (relying on Augustine).

The more common believe in the early church is it was written by Clement. Why? Dunno.

 

I believe that is what Timothy being set at liberty means. The last part is too much to of a guess.

 

I wonder, wonder who, who-oo-ooh, who
Who wrote the book of .... Hebrews.

 

I'm talking about Pauline theology as a whole (Hebrews does not fit well with his epistles, not only the language).

I do believe that whoever wrote Hebrews learned from Paul and the other disciples.


For example, you have made posts that could go along with what Paul said. But you are not Paul.

We get into the error of somebody said such and such, and it says such and such here, so that somebody must have written it.

Paul instructed Christians. It would be so much more to God's glory that another wrote Hebrews, that the Apostles teachings took root in the church, than to suppose Paul wrote everything not directly attributed to another.

I suspect this may be a reason God chose not to reveal the writer of Hebrews.

 

Yes, it did. But that was because of the Roman Catholic Church (the KJV being a Church of England translation).

I am not opposed to tradition. I'm only saying that we should not insist on tradition. When we speak of "oral tradition" we are typically talking about how Scripture was initially communicated or passed down rather than tradition.

 

I agree....insofar as communicating God's Word (evangelism) to that audience.


My main point is we do not know who wrote Hebrews because Scripture does not tell us who wrote Hebrews.

It is fun to talk about our opinions, but it is not actually edifying. In the end it is just opinion.

What matters is that God wrote Hebrews.

 

If it is Christian teaching then it is probably not unique to Paul.

The writer of Hebrews was discussing the superiority of Christ, which includes that Christ is the "Firstborn".

I have taught of Christ as the Firstborn and how this relates to the Resurrection. I am not Paul.


What you are proving is not that Paul wrote Hebrews but that God is it's ultimate writer and that the writer of Hebrews may have been influenced by Paul. I agree with what your statement actually proves.


But I disagree with your argument.

By your argument Matthew must have been written by Mark because they have so much in common.

Others view Matthew as based on Mark because they have so much in common.

BUT suppose that God is ultimately the Author of all Scripture. Then Matthew and Mark could be very similar with the connection being God rather than a common source or writer.


Same with Hebrews. The writer could have been easily a Christian who listened to Paul or read Paul's letters, applying part of that to the Jews.

We simply cannot know. If we depend on history and tradition then we pick somebody other than Paul. If we depend on Augustine and Catholic tradition we pick Paul.

BUT if we depend on the Bible, we have to be content with not knowing because Scripture simply does not name the writer.

 

In Hebrews.

(My point is that Luke said what he learned, just because Hebrews uses some words that Paul used does not mean Paul wrote Hebrews).