Are There Any letters of Correspondence From The Churches Paul Wrote To

[Awaken4Christ]

Did the Churches ever write to Paul? Is there any writings we can read today?

 

[Archie the Preacher]

Probably there were some replies. No, they are not commonly available - at least not that I'm aware.

The replies would not be held as 'inspired by God' in the same way the letters of Paul. So they would not be collected, read among other churches and maintained as 'sacred' as the letters of Paul (or James, Peter, John or Jude).

 

[St_Worm2]

Did the Churches ever write to Paul? Is there any writings we can read today?

Hi A4C, 1 Corinthians 7:1 begins with Paul mentioning their letter to him, but we don't have the actual letter he is speaking of, only his answers to their questions.

We also have Peter speaking very highly Paul, but that is praise given of him to others, not Peter writing to Paul.

Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:14-16​

We also have both the the Lord and the HS pressing him into service in Acts and speaking of him to others.

There is also a demon who recognizes Paul in Acts 19 as someone of authority who he must obey.

There is more "talk" about Paul, especially in Acts, but the only "letter" we know about (memory only serving here .. ), is the one he answers in 1 Cor 7.

 

[Vince53]

None of the letters written to Paul survive, although the Bible refers to them. Since they are not inspired, God probably did not want us to have them.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

None of the letters written to Paul survive, although the Bible refers to them. Since they are not inspired, God probably did not want us to have them.

I'm going to quibble a bit. (Not a serious and adamant objection, just a slight difference of opinion about words.)

Rather than 'God probably did not want us to have them' as if they might contain something detrimental or heretical, I think it's more the responses simply do not contain anything to 'add' to the Scriptures.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Did the Churches ever write to Paul? Is there any writings we can read today?

Sure they did, well probably.

And no, none that we can read today.

In the centuries following Paul's death there were several spurious letters in existence, some claiming to be penned by Paul (which weren't) as well as a supposed epistle from the Corinthians to Paul. These were never widely accepted, almost universally considered forgeries. The only unique case was that in the Armenian Church, for a little while at least, one could find both the spurious III Corinthians and Epistle from the Corinthians in the Armenian Bible. That was a unique case, however, and today the Armenian Church (and Armenian Bible) does not accept these, and hasn't for many hundreds of years.

-CryptoLutheran