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Saturday 18 June 2016

The Uniqueness of the Gospel of John

The gospels are messages in the form of accounts of the works and teachings of The Christ, Jesus of Nazareth around 20 to 30 AD. They capture content shared between some of them put together and preserved among earliest disciples of Jesus but one gospel stands out because the content is unique and the memory of one very special disciple who was close to Jesus perhaps most of all during those years and known as the one Jesus loved. He captured the very essence of teaching from sermons and final conversations before Jesus was evilly crucified. This is what Jesus had to say in the final testimony of the truth of The Father who is the heavenly spirit proclaimed by Jesus as God. The testimony of Jesus about the word that came from God from before the start of time is found here in this Gospel of John as the testimony that drove Jesus to the cross. In this last time of preaching the message centres on truthful speech in contrast to human natural tendency to lie because a dark spirit with immense influence over humans is by nature a liar and a murderer from the beginning. So lies and murderous hatred go hand in hand because they both come from this dark spirit. This starkly contrasts, Jesus was so keen to point out in those days while humans nursed hatred against Him, with the truthfulness and love of love Jesus knew was in The Father who people called God but did not truly follow, obey or immitate while they were hating Jesus. This is a message reflected in some places in teachings of other Apostles such as Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians but is best outlined here in the Gospel of John (see John's Gospel chapter 8).