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    The Gospel of John discusses the deity of Jesus Christ through themes of Christology, Pneumatology, Soteriology, and Eschatology. It was written by John the Apostle, one of Jesus's closest disciples, as an eyewitness to establish belief in Jesus as the Messiah. Chapter 1 emphasizes Jesus's role in creation as the eternal Word who brought life and light to the world, with darkness unable to overcome the light.

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    The Gospel of John discusses the deity of Jesus Christ through themes of Christology, Pneumatology, Soteriology, and Eschatology. It was written by John the Apostle, one of Jesus's closest disciples, as an eyewitness to establish belief in Jesus as the Messiah. Chapter 1 emphasizes Jesus's role in creation as the eternal Word who brought life and light to the world, with darkness unable to overcome the light.

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    The Gospel of John

    Tom Wacaster

    Introduction

    How to study: the structure will be topical more than textual.

    The theme of John is different from the synoptic: the magnificence of Jesus: open the possibility of
    belief.

    Author: John the apostle: “the apostle whom Jesus loved”.

    Reasons:

    1. He must have been a Jew: familiarity with the Old Testament. He had Jewish background.

    2. First century Palestinian Jew: grasp on the political situation at the time.

    3. Eye witness of Christ: plainly stated (John 1:14).

    4. Apostle of Christ.

    5. One of Jesus closest associates.

    External evidence: Church fathers unanimously attributed the book to the apostle.

    Themes:

    - Christology: the centrality of the person of the Christ. The “I am” statements: the eternity
    of Christ.
    - Pneumatology: Most of what we know of the H.S. is from John’s Gospel.
    - Soteriology: Salvation and redemption
    - Eschatology: The study of the las tings.
    - Truth and error.

    John express the deity of Christ more than anyone else.

    Chapter 1

    v. 1-2: The eternal existence of Christ: en arché.

    The beginning: creation.

    The one of whom John is talking is different from the beginning and prior of it. It is entirely
    different from all that is subjected to time. A being that is over time and which is the cause of that
    beginning.

    Logos: the communicative act of the Messiah. The medium in which the world is connected to
    God, the self-revealing act of God through the word. There is no word outside that Word: all other
    is witness to that word.

    v. 3: The word at his role in creation. All things are relativized by the word: its coming into being is
    mediated by the word.
    Authority

    Agency

    Action

    v. 4-9: Word life and light.

    v. 4: Life refers to a soteriological concept of life: eternal life.

    Light: Revelation.

    As much as the creation is bound to the Word, no revelation can come from other source than the
    Word: natural theology is bound to the fact that God has been self-revealed.

    v. 5: The darkness could not hold to the light. Comprehend = Apprehend.

    v. 6-9: the ministry and work of John.

    v. 10: The stepping down from eternity into the time. The world keeps being world that is against
    the nature of God.

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