It was time when there was coming a vivid schism in Christianity teaching, as Christian philosophy was influencing changes caused by the impact of Gnosticism of Greeks, and it was time when some Christian religious leaders rejected the Devine mission of Christ. In gospel, John comes to the original language used by Jesus Christ, He used when speaking to disciples, language close to original one of Palestine and to the events of that epoch. John tried to deliver the message to reader that was preached by Jesus Christ to his disciples explaining main moral and ethical aspects of Christianity, the core teaching one has to follow in order to receive salvation. The gospel of John is something more than a simple story about Christ's miracles, and simple faith in his all-mighty Devine nature, it's moral, its ethics and it's philosophy of the right way of life in Christ.
These features make gospel of John to stand apart from other gospels. The words of Jesus about himself are different from those we find in other gospels, as they show the essence of Jesus. To prove it George Ladd uses the following quotes: "Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life (6:35) I am the door of the sheep (10:7) I am the good shepherd (10:11) I am the light of the world (8:12) I am the resurrection, and the life (11:25)" and what is most important: "Before Abraham was born, I am (8:58)," which is the central point of Christian theology that Jesus Christ is not a prophet like Moses was, but is God.
Besides, the vocabulary of John is different from that used in other gospels. On the hand with such words as "eternal life," "light and darkens" he uses those which are not typical for texts of other disciples' gospels: "love" "to love," "truth," "witness" and especially "to believe in." Besides John doesn't use the following words that we observe in texts of other gospels: "power," "miracle," "pray," "parable." (according to Ladd's Theology of New Testament) As we can see the specific vocabulary witnesses the spiritual meaning of John's...
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