[MarkBsnr]

So, if I understand you correctly, the infallible church that canonized the writings that we know today as the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, i.e. declared said writings to be Holy Scripture, was quite willing to misname said writings and perpetuate such lies for centuries. Do I have that right?

Not exactly. The Church put names in place that they thought was right, to the best of their knowledge. We have in recent times, discovered that some of the books were not, in fact, written by the individuals named. Not a deliberate falsification at all. I'd give them kudos for admitting it in the first place - they are doing their best to find our who DID write them.

[Belteshazzar]

Well, Mark, two things:

1) How does “to the best of their knowledge” square with the claim of infallibility?

2) What makes you think that we, two thousand years after the fact, are in a better position to have “discovered that some of the books were not, in fact, written by the individuals named”?

Just curious.

[boatbums]

We have in recent times, discovered that some of the books were not, in fact, written by the individuals named. Not a deliberate falsification at all. I'd give them kudos for admitting it in the first place - they are doing their best to find our who DID write them.

I'm curious about just who is this "we" that in "recent times" have discovered the misnaming of scripture authors. Who is currently doing research? What is being researched now that was not available when the books first came out? Is there a link?