Who is most likely the author of the Gospel according to St. John?
The only honest answer is that we have no idea who wrote the gospel of John. However, we do have two major clues : The author of John changed Jesus from a teller of concise, pithy, hard-hitting parables into a preacher of long, tedious, boring, endlessly repetitive sermons. John turned Jesus into a boorish bore. So if anyone finds an early christian writer who preached long, tedious, boring, repetitive sermons, that could be the guilty party. The author of John was strongly anti-Peter and pro-”the beloved disciple.” While the ”beloved disciple” is never named, it was presumably John or possibly Lazarus (due to the enigmatic bit about the ”beloved disciple” possibly not dying). To me, the author of John sounds like a cultist with the cult centered around either John or Lazarus. And this cult seemed to be in competition with the Peter-centric cult that evolved into the Catholic church. Thus, if we can find a boring sermon-preacher in a cult of John or Lazarus, that wou...
