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{{cquote|For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.|||Acts 20:29–31}}

{{cquote|For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.|||Acts 20:29–31}}

The Fourth Gospel, if the church history record, is correct, was almost certainly the last book of the Bible written. Its implicit emphasis, especially where they differ from the Synoptics, therefore can logically be assumed to have at least partially borne/constituted a reaction to the heresies of the late 1st century. Consider the opening famous statement:

The Fourth Gospel, if the church history record, is correct, was almost certainly the last book of the Bible written. Its implicit emphasis, especially where they differ from the [[Synoptic Gospels|Synoptics]], therefore can logically be assumed to have at least partially borne/constituted a reaction to the heresies of the late 1st century. Consider the opening famous statement:

{{cquote|In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.|||John 1:1}}

{{cquote|In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.|||John 1:1}}

There are two separate Greek terms used that are both translated "God": Θεόν (Theon) and Θεὸς (Theos). Contrary to what the neo-Arianist [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] claim, this distinction does not negate the status of Christ: it simply identifies Christ as of a different "essence" from the Father, yet of equality in basic terms of divine power. Such an affirmation serves simultaneously to combat the heresies of modalism (which assumes God as one essence morphing between Father, Son, and Spirit), docetic Marcionite Gnosticism (which denied that the God of the Old Testament was also the God of the New Testament), and various proto-Arian denialism that posited Christ as merely another typical man.

There are two separate Greek terms used that are both translated "God": Θεόν (Theon) and Θεὸς (Theos). Contrary to what the neo-[[Arianism|Arianist]] [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] claim, this distinction does not negate the status of Christ: it simply identifies Christ as of a different "essence" from the Father, yet of equality in basic terms of divine power. Such an affirmation serves simultaneously to combat the heresies of [[modalism]] (which assumes God as one essence morphing between Father, Son, and Spirit), docetic Marcionite Gnosticism (which denied that the God of the Old Testament was also the God of the New Testament), and various proto-Arian denialism that posited Christ as merely another typical man.

==Hanukkah==

==Hanukkah==

The Fourth Gospel is the only book in the Bible to mention the Feast of Dedication, or commonly known as Hanukkah:

The Fourth Gospel is the only book in the Bible to mention the Feast of Dedication, or commonly known as [[Hanukkah]]:

{{cquote|And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.|||John 10:22–23}}

{{cquote|And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.|||John 10:22–23}}

Note that even Matthew's Gospel account, typically regarded as the "most Jewish" of the four Gospel books, did not mention Hanukkah!

Note that even [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew's Gospel account]], typically regarded as the "most Jewish" of the four Gospel books, did not mention Hanukkah!

==Quartodecimanism==

==Quartodecimanism==

{{cquote|Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.|||John 6:32–35}}

{{cquote|Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.|||John 6:32–35}}

{{cquote|Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.|||John 6:47–51}}

{{cquote|Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.|||John 6:47–51}}