Third Epistle to the Corinthians
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Nov 4, 2026
Gary StearmanHOST
Does Paul ever brag about that? No.
Gary StearmanHOST
There's not a book in the Bible like 3 Corinthians, you know, which has 14 chapters.
Gary StearmanHOST
And in 3 Corinthians, you read about all the stuff that Paul Paul learned from Jesus personally.
Gary StearmanHOST
And it might be, you know, the first chapter in this book might be, I, Paul, writing to the churches, want to tell you about how Jesus and I sat down together under a fig tree and he taught me all about the basic doctrines of Christianity.
Gary StearmanHOST
And here they are.
Gary StearmanHOST
That's 3 Corinthians.
Gary StearmanHOST
There's no such book.
Gary StearmanHOST
Because Paul is not given to bragging, quite the opposite.
Alex LoginowHOST
New Testament gospels or even epistles.
Alex LoginowHOST
You know, there's an epistle, a New Testament apocryphal epistle known as Third Corinthians, and it claims to be, you know, Paul's third letter to the Corinthians, but it clearly is an anti-docetic treaty.
Alex LoginowHOST
combating heresy in early early Christianity and a lot of these New Testament apocryphal books are very very like historians have very clearly and very consistently you know trace them back to the second or third century generations after the Apostles and that's that's part of why they've never been considered or included in Scripture because one of the one of the requirements, one of the standards for considering a book canonical or inspired is apostolic origin.
Alex LoginowHOST
Are these books connected to the apostles, either written by an apostle himself or someone who was connected to the apostles, just like Luke was connected to St. Paul or like Mark was connected to St. Peter.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
And with enough time passed, about 100-150 years, and a rapidly growing church, these things could easily be passed off to an unsuspecting audience.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
In either case, the existence of forgeries does not prove or even demand that Ignatius existed and had a real corpus of work, like Paul had his corpus and also forgeries that were made about Paul, like 3 Corinthians.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
one may claim that nobody doubts paul's letters despite having forgeries made but that's a false equivalence paul's letters had way more manuscript tradition and were also consistent with scripture they being inspired were also recognized by the church fairly universally as the spirit was moving in the first few centuries to collate the canon ignatius by contrast has extremely poor manuscript evidence as discussed and also several inconsistencies with Scripture.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
So it's a totally different situation.
SeanPANELIST
Now, looking back, I see, as a layman, I see perhaps even more openness for movement in Catholicism than I do in general terms in Protestantism.
SeanPANELIST
So the question of whether it's a open or closed canon, would we add Third Corinthians to the canon? In today's context, from a Protestant perspective, I think we would be very hard-pressed to add anything to what we have listed or entombed [chuckles] as canonical.
SeanPANELIST
Some of the friends that I speak with, who are somewhat scholarly and educated, don't have a whole lot of openness to consider...
SeanPANELIST
Well, and we have a great reference with Ellen White.
SeanPANELIST
If you bring up Ellen White to some of these folks, what I do, there's not a whisper or a prayer that would allow for her to be [chuckles] considered even close to the same role as those we have in the canon.
SeanPANELIST
So in today's context, I don't see it very possible that we could add Third Corinthians.
SeanPANELIST
I'm not a scholar.
SeanPANELIST
I don't know what's going on in that arena, but it just doesn't seem possible to add that right now.