The Gospel of John (Part 2)

Last episode, I started a new series. A series on the Gospel of John. The Gospel of John is distinctive, and unlike the other three, which are more narrative driven.As noted in the last episode, we don ‘t know who wrote any of the Gospels. However, the Gospel of John is so radically different, that some suggest it could have been the product of an entirely different school of thought. A perspective that saw the more mystical side of Jesus.That would not be a stretch, because the Gnostic texts discovered in 1945 certainly show that this was one of the many diverse views about Jesus that existed during that time.This is no different than the distinction between how tradition sees Jesus, and how Unity sees Jesus today. From this comparison, the Unity mindset would have written John, and the traditional mindset the Synoptics. Granted some of this is conjecture because we know so little about the topic from a historical, unbiased, point of view. As such, that leaves us with the liberty to take a metaphysical interpretation of the Gospel of John because that is what we do in Unity.