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Martin Luther, the great Protestant and Lutheran reformer, “recognized 1 Peter (along with the Gospel of John and Paul’s Letters) as ‘the true kernel and marrow of all the New Testament Books. For in them [readers]… find depicted in masterly fashion how faith in Christ overcomes sin, death, and hell, and gives life, righteousness, and salvation.”

While sin and temptation are Satan’s tools against individual Christians, sinful theological liberalism has been his primary weapon against the Church as a whole for several hundred years. Influenced by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, who “declared his age ‘an age of criticism’ and called readers to reject the authority of the Church and the Bible," Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) is known as the “father of modern theology” and, more specifically, the “father of modern liberal theology.”

Because the author of Hebrews is unknown, it can only be said that the Epistle is the work of “one of the [greatest] theologians of the New Testament.” While it is unclear to whom this title belongs, there have been many assumed authors, such as the Apostle Paul…