Gospel of John: Why and When Was It Written?

[Mloyoyo]

Excellent, I know who wrote, and why. We can proceed and we are think "Hebrew" okay got it.

[sonofjesus]

Allen Dave's
I think u r confuse okkk take it easy so for example if I open the cap of pen then what we will call the obviously pen's cap and then take the refile out of it what we will called refill we called pen's refill so then why u confuse jesus is cap and Yhvh is pen and the refill is holy spirit jesus pray to yahweh because jesus was the son of god

[smb]

Virtually all scholars now agree that John was written in part to counter the growing heresy of Docetism. John alone uses the term "antichrist" (in his letters) to refer to those with a different gospel, specifically, those that do not confess that "Jesus came in the flesh". Docetism claimed that Jesus was not material, only an illusion, and John sought to counter this. The story of doubting Thomas was another invented tale to "prove" Jesus was flesh and blood and not a ghost as many taught.

[imagomonkei]

I do not believe John was written to supplement the other Gospels. The author (Lazarus or someone else) seems to have mainly interacted with Yeshua in Jerusalem and toward the latter half of his ministry, because he primarily focuses on the pilgrimage feasts (even Hanukkah). I also recently heard a convincing argument that the author had a trifold purpose:

1. Prove Yeshua's superiority over John the Baptist.
2. Use language concerning the god Hermes to show Yeshua's superiority over him.
3. Demonstrate Yeshua's unique relationship to God as the human embodiment of God's wisdom.

Just to clarify a linguistic detail, if someone is someone else's son, they are necessarily two different people and beings. Yeshua is not God, he is God's representative on Earth.