[/quote]Diogenes the Cynic wrote:Eusebius says that John the Elder was not the Apostle, but there is no evidence that either of those figures wrote the Fourth Gospel. The author does not identify himself. The name "John" is not even in the Gospel at all except when it refers to John the Baptist. The appendix is meaningless. Lots of Christian writings contain claims to have come from this or that disciple. The Gospel of Thomas says it was was written down by Judas Thomas, the twin brother of Jesus. At least some of it was probably written earlier than GJohn.Metacrock wrote:every indication is given by Irenaeous, Papis, Polycarp that the Johns they knew were there for most of the action and saw what Jesus did and heard what he said. that makes them eye witnesses.
He does not have to have written the fourth Gospel to be an eye witness. my view is the fourth was began by the BD who was Lazarus. Elder John was the last redactor of the process. The Apostle John became confused as the author/community founder becuase he helped to found the community of Samaritan Christians and John seems to have had a big Samaritan influence.
[quote[Why does the author of GJohn think that Christians were expelled from synagogues during the life of Jesus? That didn't happen until the 90's. How could a disciple get that so wrong? Alzheimers, maybe?[/quote]
Where does he say that?