Thread:Snowstripe the Fierce/@comment-31246436-20161022130521

Hey Sno. I saw that new article you created about John of Patmos. No offense, but this article is unnecessary. The John of Patmos is traditionally believed to be John the Apostle - and with good reasons. (1) The author of the Book of Revelation identified himself as simply John. (2) Like the apostle, the author had personal relationships with the seven churches of Asia Minor. (3) The author's circumstances at the time of writing Revelation match those of John the Apostle. (4) The saturation of Revelation with Old Testament imagery implies a Jewish writer, such as the Apostle. (5) Though the author does not claim to be the Apostle John, it seems unlikely that any other first-century Christian leader would have the authority or was associated closely enough with the churches of Asia Minor to have just referred to himself as John without any indication of being someone else so to not get mistaken for the Apostle.

However, because of the thought patterns, vocabulary, and writing style of Revelation are quite different from those of the Gospel of John and 1, 2, and 3 John, some interpreters have reasoned the book was written by a different John, someone known in that day as "the Elder." While these observations are correct, traditional authorship is supported by the following considerations: (1) Revelation has many themes and theological ideas in common with John's Gospel and letters. For example, only the Gospel and Revelation refer to Jesus Christ as the Word of God and the Lamb. The theme of "witness" is also particularly prominent in all five books. (2) Different wording is to be expected in a book that is largely of a different kind of literature from John's other writings. (3) The early church almost unanimously attributed Revelation to John the Apostle.

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