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Apart from Philemon, Paul's letters were written to cajole and instruct the churches in various matters. Philemon was written to a fellow-Christian on behalf of a slave whom Paul was sending back to his owner.
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Who wrote the 21 letters in the bible?
St. Paul the Apostle is credited for writing the epistles.
How many letters of St. Paul did not make it into the Bible?
ANSWER: The world may never know. GOD only inspired the men of GOD to put in the Bible, the letters of Paul that He wanted, too.
Why did St. Paul write St Timothy so many letters?
Christian scholars refer to the letters to Timothy (and Titus) as the 'Pastorals' because they are concerned with pastoral issues that became important in the second century. They were not really written by Paul, nor were they written to Timothy, but were encyclicals to the Church at large, providing instruction for the overseers of congregations in the second century. By writing two epistles and attributing them to Paul, the author created a marvelous fiction in order to place a church manual of discipline from the mid-second century in the very beginning of the apostolic tradition.Their attribution to Paul is clearly fictional, for their language, style and thought are thoroughly un-Pauline. The 'personal' references to particular occasions in the lives of Timothy, Titus, and Paul do not fit with reconstructions of that history taken from the authentic letters of Paul.The letters were not included in Marcion's list of Paul's letters (ca 140 CE), nor do they appear in the earliest manuscript collection of Paul's letters (ca. 200 CE). The first quotations from the epistles appear in lrenaeus' Against Heresies, dated about 180 CE.
What do Paul's teachings add to emergent Christian beliefs?
The letters and teachings of St Paul helped to give early Christian communities hope and strength to keep believing through hard times of persecution.
Who were the letters of St. Paul the Corinthians 1 addressed to?
The bible tells us if you look at 1 Corinthians 1 verse 2. The congregation in Corinth
