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You go on to list several reasons why you don't accept it, but do you really think you are in a majority of Christians who reject Peter's epistles? How about within your own Church? Are they dismissed?

That is entirely irrelevant to me. Besides, I don't remember the Orthodox Church ever reading from Peter's epistles. I am sure the Church finds them useful for something.

Why is that clear, and why would it be necessary for him to have seen ALL of Paul's works to declare the ones he had seen scriptures?

Do you know of any scripture that is consists of one chapter? Besides, Peter would have said something had it been recognized as scripture. The truth is it wasn't, not until much later.

FK: You go on to list several reasons why you don't accept it, but do you really think you are in a majority of Christians who reject Peter's epistles? How about within your own Church? Are they dismissed?

That is entirely irrelevant to me.

How can it be irrelevant to you what your Church holds? By Apostolic sacred beliefs, your Church is THE AUTHORITY in the universe for all things Christian pertaining to us. You are BOUND and beholden to whatever your Church says. Your Church is the POWER, etc. etc. If you feel free to branch off, either because what the Church thinks is irrelevant to you, or, because the Church doesn't have a position on several matters so you are free to think whatever you want, THEN you would count as a separate denomination of Orthodoxy in your own right, as you judge Protestants. Your neighbor who is Orthodox would also be his own denomination for disagreeing with you and/or the Church on other matters. This is NOT the unity that is heralded by Apostolics.

FK: Why is that clear, and why would it be necessary for [Peter] to have seen ALL of Paul's works to declare the ones he had seen scriptures?

Do you know of any scripture that is consists of one chapter?

Yes, 2 John, 3 John, Philemon, Jude, and Obadiah all have only one chapter.

Besides, Peter would have said something had it been recognized as scripture. The truth is it wasn't, not until much later.

I know that Peter's epistles are part of the 95% of the Bible you reject, but your Church does recognize the Petrine epistles as such, so no matter who wrote them, it WAS scripture at the time. That is, Paul was recognized as scripture when the Petrine epistles were written, early to mid 60's. Of course, if they are all a fraud to you then they could have been written last week, etc.