Busting 7 Arguments Against the Traditional Authorship of John
When arguing for the traditional authorship of John, you’re going to encounter a significant amount of pushback. Skeptics will often say that there’s a vast scholarly consensus against Johannine authorship, but when you look at their arguments, many of them are quite weak. In this post, I’ll address some of the more common ones. 1. Wouldn’t someone close to John sound more like the Synoptic writers? No, not if John had different purposes for writing his Gospel. The early evidence from the church fathers says that his Gospel was intentionally supplemental. Clement of Alexandria wrote: “Of all those who had been with the Lord only Matthew and John left us their recollections (hypomnēmata), and tradition … Read more