In the beginning was…
Was the apostle John a Greek philosopher… or a Jewish fisherman?
Are you a serious student of the life and ministry of Jesus? Then you must be aware of the life and practices of first century Judaism. The gospels cannot be properly understood apart from their Jewish heritage. The Bible is a Jewish Book!
But anti-Semitism in the Church has created an aversion to all things Jewish. A Hellenised Church caused Christians to embrace the life style of Greek philosophers and call it Biblical; the Old Testament was seen as too Jewish, so the Church claimed it was exclusively New Testament (NT), an error that severed it from a major portion of God’s intended purpose.
The NT cannot stand on its own! It’s incomplete without the Old which is quoted 855 times in the New.
It follows that too much emphasis is put on Greek culture. After all, the NT was written in Greek! This is true as Greek was the ‘lingua franca’ of the time. Does that mean the writers had Greek mindsets? No! They were Jews with Hebraic mindsets.