Defending the Gospel of John Scripts Now Available

Last week, I began teaching a new self-developed curriculum entitled 'Defending the Gospel of John'. The first 9 lesson scripts are now available online at my church's website. A link to the scripts can be found on the Links section of this blog. We had over 30 folks attend Week 1 last week, which is a very good start.

The course addresses a number of accusations that have been made against the Gospel of John, including the following:

1) The GJ strongly incorporates Gnostic ideas, terms, and categories.
2) The Apostle John did not write a single word of the GJ.
3) The GJ is historically unreliable and totally dissimilar from the Synoptics.
4) The GJ is a sectarian document written by a sectarian community.
5) The GJ is anti-semitic.
6) The GJ is anti-pluralistic.

The course touches on biblical exegesis, church history, theology, ethics, and other disciplines. I invite all interested readers to pull up the scripts and peruse. And, of course, anyone who would like to attend the course at Faith Church is very invited to come. I'd love the chance to meet you.

Many thanx to Faith Church for making these scripts available online.