RE: Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.
December 21, 2017 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 5:33 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(December 21, 2017 at 4:50 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 21, 2017 at 4:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: "In the name of" or "according to" are both way of ascribing authority to a text, not necessarily its authorship. It's like when a low feudalistic official says, "You are hereby summoned in the name of His Majesty, the King." The low official is claiming the King's authority for whatever he is about to say.
The Gospel of Peter claims, explicitly, to have been written by the Apostle Peter; do you accept that as being authentic?
I was thinking of Mathew, Mark, and John, not those that directly indicate authorship. Peter is a case in which the authority and the authorship are the same. The same for Luke and Acts. John could have been written by committee, for all I know, but is traditionally taken as containing John's account of events.
