2nd Peter

Here is your interesting bible fact for the week. 2 Peter made it into the New Testament only after much dispute and a few hundred years. No one even knew that Peter wrote a second letter until almost a century later! This may not sound like a big deal (and in the scheme of things, it's really not) but most of the 1st century churches never read this letter let alone didn't even know this letter existed. Generally, most of the 1st and 2nd century historians may have known about this letter but did not regard this as scripture. Finally, in the 4th century 2nd Peter was accepted into the New Testament. Just to throw another kink into the problem, Peter probably did not 2nd Peter. (Here's where you can check my research.) Someone else wrote it in the name of Peter thinking his name meant more at the time. Back then, this wasn't plagerism, it was an honor to have someone write in your name. Through all the chaos of deciding what got in to the bible and what didn't, I'm just glad God had a hand in all of it.