WAS THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN
WRITTEN BY JOHN THE APOSTLE?
Jerome, in his book “De
Viris Illustribus”, chapter 9, wrote the following:
“John, the apostle whom Jesus
most loved, the son of Zebedee and brother of James, the apostle whom Herod,
after our Lord's passion, beheaded, most recently of all the evangelists wrote
a Gospel, at the request of the bishops of Asia, against Cerinthus
and other heretics and especially against the then growing dogma of the Ebionites, who assert that Christ did not exist before Mary. By whom he was
compelled to proclaim His divine nativity.”
In this same chapter, continuing
to speak about John, Jerome wrote the following:
“He wrote also one Epistle which
begins as follows “That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard,
that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands handled concerning the word
of life” which is approved by all the ecclesiastics and scholars. And the
remaining two, of which the beginning is “The elder to the elect lady and her
children” and of the following “The elder unto Gaius the beloved whom I love in
truth”, are ascribed to John the Elder (or John the Presbyter), of whom until
today another sepulchre at Ephesus is shown, although some think that there are
two memorials of the same John the Evangelist. We shall treat of this matter in
its turn when we come to Papias his disciple.”
Therefore, we see that, in
reality, who wrote the books of the New Testament attributed to John the
apostle was another man, called John the Elder (or John the Presbyter), that
some confused with John the Apostle.
Moreover, by the mentioned
passages of the book “De Viris Illustribus”,
of Jerome, we also see that that other man, called John the Elder (or John the
Presbyter), wrote the Gospel according to John upon request of the bishops of
Asia, with the purpose of fighting the doctrine of the Ebionites, that says that Jesus Christ is not God, and this explains why the
author of the Gospel according to John seeks to say that Jesus Christ is God.
Therefore, we see that, in
reality, the Gospel according to John was not written by John the Apostle, and
was written upon request of the Catholic bishops, with the purpose of defending
the false doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
The
doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ is false, because the true followers of Jesus Christ, who were
the Ebionites, did
not believe that Jesus Christ is God, nor that
he was born of a virgin, and also because it is totally absurd to say that
a man is God, because God is the Creator of all the things and the man is a
creature, and it is totally impossible the Creator to be the creature and also
it is totally impossible the creature to be the Creator. That is a logical
impossibility. On this subject, it sees the following web page: http://www.servosdejave.org.br/is_jesus_god.htm
.
This explains why the Gospel
according to John is very different from the other three gospels, the according
to Matthew, the according to Mark and the according to Lucas.
The first three gospels are
called synoptic gospels, because they have many similarities between them, to
the contrary of the Gospel according to John, which is very different from the
other three.
The Gospel according to John
presents a history of Jesus very different from that which is presented by the
three first gospels.
See some of the differences
between the Gospel according to John and the other three gospels:
1) Only in the Gospel according
to John appears the passage that says that in the beginning was the Word, and
that the Word was with God, and that the Word was God, and that the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1-14). In the other three gospels there
is not this passage. Be noted that this passage presents a falsified version of
the origin of the universe, that contradicts the authentic version,
that is in Genesis 1:1, where it is written: “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth”.
2) Only in the Gospel according
to John is reported the miracle of the transformation of the water into wine.
In the other three gospels this miracle is not reported. This miracle, in case
that it really had occurred, would be too much great to be omitted by the other
three evangelists. This shows that the author of the Gospel according to John tried
to increase the number of the miracles, in order to defend the false doctrine that says that Jesus Christ is God.
3) Only in the Gospel according
to John is reported the miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus, four days after
its death. In the other three gospels this miracle is not reported. This
miracle, in case that it really had occurred, would be too much great to be
omitted by the other three evangelists. This shows that the author of the
Gospel according to John tried to increase the number of the miracles, in order
to defend the false doctrine that says that Jesus
Christ is God.
4) In the Gospel according to
John is found the narrative of the last supper, but there it is not reported
that in the last supper Jesus has said that the bread was his body and that the
wine was his blood, as is reported in the other three gospels, and this, in
case that it really had occurred, would be too much important to be omitted by
the author of the Gospel according to John.
5) In the Gospel according to
John is reported that in the last supper Jesus washed the feet of his
disciples, and this is not reported in the other three gospels, and this, in
case that it really had occurred, would be too much important to be omitted by
the other three evangelists.
All those things prove that the
Gospel according to John was not written by John the Apostle.
The Gospel according to John is
not part of the true Bible, that is
the Bible of the Ebionites, that is composed by the books of the Old Testament
(Tanach).
And the Gospel according to John
does not contain the true history of Jesus Christ, because the true history of
Jesus Christ is in the gospel that was used by
the Ebionites, which was written in
Hebrew, and does not contain all the passages that are in the Gospel according
to Matthew in Greek that is used by the Catholics and the Protestants, or
Evangelicals.
For more details on this subject,
see the following pages:
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/which_is_the_true_bible.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/the_true_followers.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/gospel_ebionites.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/which_is_the_authentic_text.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/church_fathers.htm
Yahveh bless you.
John Paulo Fernandes
Pontes.
Published in April 25, 2011.
Udated in March 25, 2012.
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