StanJ
Lifelong student of God's Word.
Have to agree with you...the book of John was written by Lazarus as HE is the only one the NT says that Jesus loved. The book of John does NOT identify John as it's author, and it's style is much more intimate than John's style is in his epistles and Revelation.Jun2u said:Are you saying that the subject of the Lord Jesus and Peter's conversation was the Apostle John? Are you certain?
It is a common belief amongst scholars and Purity that John is the disciple who leaned back against the chest of Jesus, and that he also wrote the Book of John.
Unfortunately, most scholars, if not all and Purity are wrong.
HINT: Search the Scripture for the disciple (not an apostle) whom Jesus loved and you will have found also the writer of the Book of John. I'm aware that the word apostles is also translated as disciples, I'm merely suggesting that the disciple whom Jesus loved was not an apostle.
John 21:23
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
GOING BACK TO THE OP
Jesus does not have to prove He is God! The Father and the Bible testified to that. I have laid down many, many Scripture texts to Nothead in another thread, to prove Jesus' deity, and likewise, those who posted here.
You say God is ONE (numerically) SHEMA. How then do you reconcile the Bible verses below?
1John 5:5-8
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one.
Matthew 28:19
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name (NOT NAMES) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”
To God Be The Glory
Oh, BTW, most scholars DON'T agree on who wrote John just as MOST don't agree on who wrote Hebrews.