Lilyofthevalley

Is it now accepted by scholars that the person who wrote the letters of John in the New Testament wrote some of the gospel of John? The same writing style is clearly there. A lot of the time Jesus talks in John's gospel exactly the way John writes in the letters of John.

aa5874

But it appears the letters of John may have been written after Marcion's "no-flesh" Jesus.

1John 4:3 -

show_no_mercy

At the most, this would show that the same community wrote the letters, not the same person. It's highly unlikely that John, if a witness to Jesus, wrote any gospels or letters, since they were written in Greek and "John" was supposed to be an Aramaic speaking fisherman - a profession where reading and writing weren't needed.

Highly unlikely that an Aramaic speaking fisherman learned near flawless Greek and wrote a long-ass, theologically sophisticated gospel and three letters.

Besides, like aa said, these letters and the gospels seem to be combating Gnosticism, which didn't start becoming prevalent until the 2nd century. Some argue that the gospel and 1 John were written by "John the Evangelist" and 2 & 3 John were written by "John the Elder".

Doug Shaver

That is probably accepted by many scholars.

I don't think there is anything you can say about the NT that is accepted by all scholars.

Clivedurdle

But then we have a date for the gospel of John post Marcion...