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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelWitcoff" data-source="post: 1299502" data-attributes="member: 16038"><p>John has a different emphasis because he’s combatting heresies that have started to pop up. He often talks about Christ having a physical body because he’s writing against the Docetists who claimed He did not. He emphasized Christ’s divinity, I would assume, because there were already people denying it even within the Church by the end of the first century - a view that had taken so many minds captive it had to be formally condemned at the first Ecumenical Council so Christians would know which teachings came from the Apostles and which did not. But Christ is referred to as God explicitly by two other New Testament authors as well, so John obviously wasn’t just inventing that or saying anything opposed to what the rest of the group believed. There is never a difference in Who Christ is, merely in the perspective and the audience along with the varying emphases needed to account for those factors.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MichaelWitcoff, post: 1299502, member: 16038"] John has a different emphasis because he’s combatting heresies that have started to pop up. He often talks about Christ having a physical body because he’s writing against the Docetists who claimed He did not. He emphasized Christ’s divinity, I would assume, because there were already people denying it even within the Church by the end of the first century - a view that had taken so many minds captive it had to be formally condemned at the first Ecumenical Council so Christians would know which teachings came from the Apostles and which did not. But Christ is referred to as God explicitly by two other New Testament authors as well, so John obviously wasn’t just inventing that or saying anything opposed to what the rest of the group believed. There is never a difference in Who Christ is, merely in the perspective and the audience along with the varying emphases needed to account for those factors. [/QUOTE]

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