Talk:First Epistle to Timothy/Archive 1

Archive 1

I have assembled all material from First Epistle to Timothy, Second Epistle to Timothy and Epistle to Titus here, with minimal tweaking, meaning not to edit until everyone is satisfied that the three Pastoral Epistles can be treated as a group, with subsections for material that concerns them individually. After a while, the former entries (content now duplicative) can be converted to redirects. The individual books remain in the Category:New Testament books, with an additional category, Pastoral epistles. --Wetman 03:58, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This article is biased in favor of the conservative view of date and authorship. This article is not NPOV. Note that the current article contains this quote: "Thus, there is no scholarly reason to openly embrace the idea that this is not Paul's work." Compare this with the Encyclopedia Britannica comment on the subject: "Broadly speaking, Roman Catholic exegetes still hold that Paul was the author and view the letters as sources of information about the apostle's life and thought. Protestant exegetes are generally convinced that the style is so different from Paul's normal way of expressing himself that someone else must have been the author." Obviously, there are many historians who believe Paul is not the author. For example, L. Michael White believes that I Timothy was written around 120-140 AD. Westwind273 00:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, no argument against my comment above in over a month, so I think it is OK to make this article more NPOV as regards to authorship.Westwind273 11:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I'm new to this Wikipedia thing, and thought an obscure article (not to say that it is unimportant) with which I have some familiarity would be a good place to start. To be upfront, I would be considered quite a 'conservative'. I understand that the point of Wikipedia is not to promote one view over the other. That being said, is presenting a case, qualified as, 'Conservative commentators say' considered POV? Basically, is giving lopsided information considered POV? I am asking this because I have been studying Timothy, and there is much more information that could be added; however, it is mainly from what I know, that of conservative commentators. I don't know if I could accurately portray the 'liberal' interpretations. Or is this not a forum in which to state interpretations of particular verses & issues? --Mr Jakobos 20:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)