Who wrote the book of Philippians?

Answer 1

Paul includes the name of Timotheus (Timothy) with his own at the beginning of the letter.

"Practically no-one, ancient or modern, has questioned the authenticity of Colossians or its Pauline authorship." The New Defender's Study Bible (Nashville, World Publishing 2006) page 1829 notes by the late Dr Henry M Morris, PhD., LL.D., Litt.D.

The reasons for this are relatively simple in that Paul identifies himself as the author in both the opening and closing verses of the book. Deliberate fabrication was not tolerated in the early church and there is a record of an officer being dismissed for adding an apostle to a document he wrote to give it authority. New Testament writings were simply not accepted unless it was known who wrote them. This is one reason why a number were late in being included into the canon. Colossians 1:1-2 (King James Version)1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,

2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The opening verse indicates that Timothy co-authored the letter with Paul.

Answer 2

Most likely NOT the Apostle Paul

AnswerThat the apostle Paul did not write Ephesians can easily be established, and around 80 per cent of biblical scholars say that Paul was not the author of the Epistle to the Ephesians, based on the following and other evidence:

• Many passages in Ephesians seem to be directly copied from Colossians, which itself is clearly a second-century pseudo-Pauline epistle.
• Its vocabulary differs considerably from that of Paul.
• There is not a suggestion of the personal Paul in this epistle. The style is different, the vocabulary is.different, and the rhetoric is different from authentic Pauline letters. Paul was always passionately engaged and intellectually sharp, but Ephesians has been called flaccid and quite boring.
• Paul's only ever usedthe term church ( ekklesia, congregation) to refer to a local congregation, whereas the author of Ephesians used the term in the singular to refer to the universal Church.

We know who did NOT write Ephesians, but we do not know who the anonymous author was who DID write the epistle.

AnswerSt. Paul the Apostle.

Eph 1 (v.1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Even in the secular world, a writer will use different styles, wording, and content for different chaptersof a book, let alone letters to different people.

Answer 3

A majority of scholars believe that Paul did not write Colossians. Fr. Raymond E. Brown, a member of the Vatican's Roman Pontifical Biblical Commission, has expressed his belief that, of the thirteen epistles which say that they were written by Paul, critical scholars have reached a near consensus that only seven are Paul's: 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Philippians, Philemon and Romans. On this view, Colossians was probably written by an anonymous author late in the first century CE.

Answer 4

No. The strong consensus of New Testament scholars is that the Epistle to the Ephesians was written during the eighties of the first century, long after Paul's death. Much of the material was copied from the Epistle to the Colossians, also a pseudepigraphical letter, with some changes of wording.

There is not a suggestion of the personal Paul in Ephesians. The style is different, the vocabulary is different, the rhetoric is different and even some of the theology is different from authentic Pauline letters.

Answer 5

The book of Philippians in the New Testament was written by the apostle Paul. It is one of the letters he wrote to the early Christian community in Philippi while he was imprisoned.

Answer 6

Another answer from our community:

Yes the book of Ephesians is written by Paul, it was written to the church in Ephesus.

Answer 7

The book of Philippians was written by Paul while he was in prison.

Answer 8

The apostle Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans.

Answer 9

Paul wrote the book of Colossians in the city of Rome.

Answer 10

Paul.