Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is John 1-4
The gospel of John is so radically different than the other gospels, some secular scholars have dismissed it as inaccurate. This is a weak argument. The gospel of John was written to teach doctrine as much as teaching about the life of Christ. This doesn't make it less reliable it just makes it different.
The difference is seen in the very beginning of the Gospel where John teaches about the pre-incarnate (life before birth) life of Christ. John isn't hinting about it he makes it clear by calling him the Word (logos). This meant Jesus was the indwelling logic in the universe or the rational order of all things. John didn't want those reading about the life of Christ to think Jesus was just a good man. Jesus' divinity seems hinted at in the Gospels (at least to modern readers), clear in the teachings of the Apostles, but John was making it clear Jesus was God.
Now we have to deal with what this means for us, which is what John wants.
The gospel of John is so radically different than the other gospels, some secular scholars have dismissed it as inaccurate. This is a weak argument. The gospel of John was written to teach doctrine as much as teaching about the life of Christ. This doesn't make it less reliable it just makes it different.
The difference is seen in the very beginning of the Gospel where John teaches about the pre-incarnate (life before birth) life of Christ. John isn't hinting about it he makes it clear by calling him the Word (logos). This meant Jesus was the indwelling logic in the universe or the rational order of all things. John didn't want those reading about the life of Christ to think Jesus was just a good man. Jesus' divinity seems hinted at in the Gospels (at least to modern readers), clear in the teachings of the Apostles, but John was making it clear Jesus was God.
Now we have to deal with what this means for us, which is what John wants.
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