Background Book Of Colossians

Scholars have increasingly questioned paul s authorship and attributed the letter to an early follower instead.

Background book of colossians. Background of the book of colossians 1 who is considered the author of the book and why. God worked in creation making humans workers in his image colossians 1 1 14 god at work jesus at work colossians 1 15 20 jesus the image of the invisible god colossians 1 15 29 i m doing alright by myself colossians 2. 62 while paul was in prison in rome acts 27 28.

60 in the same year as ephesians and philemon see chart p. Bruce paul the apostle of the heart set free pp. The authenticity of the letter however has been defended with equal strength.

This was about the same time he wrote ephesians and philemon. Childs the nt as canon 346 349. So paul sent this letter along with the letters to philemon and to the ephesians with tychicus accompanied by onesimus colossians 4 7.

The epistle of paul to the colossians is the twelfth book of the new testament. The town and the church. Written to christians living in colosse a small city located on the lycus river in present day turkey the letter was delivered by tychicus and onesimus alongside those paul wrote to the ephesians and to philemon.

If paul was the author he probably us. 20 philemon 9 suggests that colossians philemon may have been written early in the imprisonment yet for love s sake i prefer to appeal to you i paul an ambassador and now a prisoner. Some have argued that paul wrote colossians from ephesus or caesarea but most of the evidence favors rome as the place where paul penned all the prison letters ephesians colossians philippians and philemon.

It not only claims to have been written by paul 1 1 23. Tychicus was a coworker of paul who would have been able to help the colossian believers understand and apply the apostle s teachings in the letter. 19 see o brien colossians p.