Many Scholars Feel Most Books in NT Thought to be Apostolic are Forgeries
From Bart Erhman's book "Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew": Were any of the books that made it into the New Testament actually written by apostles of Jesus? As we have seen, critical scholars are fairly unified in thinking that Matthew did not write the First Gospel or John the Fourth, that Peter did not write 2 Peter and possibly not 1 Peter. No other book of the New Testament claims to be written by one of Jesus' earthly disciples. There are books by... Sign in to see full entry.