Although it is generally accepted that Paul wrote most of the epistles, there are still questions surrounding the authorship of several letters. The six in question are 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Colossians, Ephesians, and 2 Thessalonians. For this blog, I want to focus solely on 2 Thessalonians and try to uncover who wrote this letter and why this letter was even included. 1 Thessalonians was written by the apostle Paul to a church in Thessalonica with the intention of encouraging them in their new-found Christianity and guiding them onto the correct path. "Rather than a correction of any doctrinal or behavioral error, then, 1 Thessalonians is a hortatory letter of friendship with the goal of guiding the readers in the development of Christian character. (Akerlund 20)". The newly converted Christians in Thessalonica were under extreme persecution and ostracism from the Roman society and, in today's terms, would have been considered "alternati...