Re: Titus 3:5

On 7/23/2026 10:48 AM, Brother Desmond (Desi) Edward Coughlan wrote:
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> He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but
> because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth
> and new life through the Holy Spirit.
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> Repent now and accept Jesus Christ into your heart

Titus, along with the two other pastoral epistles (1 Timothy and 2 
Timothy), is regarded by some scholars as being pseudepigraphical.[8] On 
the basis of the language and content of the pastoral epistles, these 
scholars reject that they were written by Paul and believe that they 
were written by an anonymous forger after his death. Critics claim the 
vocabulary and style of the Pauline letters could not have been written 
by Paul according to available biographical information and reflect the 
views of the emerging church rather than the apostle's. These scholars 
date the epistle from the 80s AD up to the end of the 2nd century, 
though most would place it sometime between 80 and 100 AD.[9] The Church 
of England's Common Worship Lectionary Scripture Commentary concurs with 
this view: "the proportioning of the theological and practical themes is 
one factor that leads us to think of these writings as coming from the 
post-Pauline church world of the late first or early second century".[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Titus