Authorship of Peter's Epistles
Some modern scholars say that the two letters in the Bible attributed to Peter, which both claim internally to be from Peter, are written with a different styles and therefore must be written by two different people. Some even say that since Peter was an uneducated fisherman he could not have written either letter. In the age of e-mail and smartphones we tend to forget how things used to be. In fact, many people can't remember a time before computers. People don't write letters anymore. Many people today have never written one unless it was for school. Why take the time to write letters that will take days to be delivered when an e-mail or text message is faster to write, will arrive instantaneously, can be sent to multiple people at once, and can check your spelling for you? My mother was a secretary back when people still wrote letters (not that long ago really) and secretaries back then needed a skill which is now mostly antiquated called “shor...