Huyo aliyetoa maelezo hayo ni nani ?? mbona hayamo kwenye aya ??
The Book of Revelation:
"The author of the book calls himself John, who because of his Christian faith has been exiled to the rocky island of Patmos, a Roman penal colony.
Although he never claims to be John the apostle, he was so identified by several of the early church Fathers, including Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Terullian, Cyprian, and Hippolytus.
This identification, however, was denied by other Fathers, including Denis of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom. Indeed, vocabulary, grammar, and style make it doubtful that the book could have been put into its present form by the same persons responsible for the fourth gospel. (The New American Bible, ISBN: 978-0-529-06484-4, Page 1373)"
"Four times the author identifies himself as John (1:1,4,9; 22:8).....In the third century, however, an African bishop named Dionysius compared the language, style and thought of the Apocalypse (Revelation) with that of the other writings of John and decided that the book could not been written by the apostle of John.
He suggested that the author was a certain John the Presbyter, whose name appears elsewhere in ancient writings.
Although many today follow Dionysius in his view of authorship, the external evidence seems overwhelmingly supportive of the traditional view. (From the NIV Bible Commentary [1], page 1922)"
Again, we don't know who wrote the Book of Revelation.
It is certainly highly doubtful that it was written by Apostle John.
The Theologians and Historians of the NIV Bible seem to agree with the invalidity of this book from the above quote.
So are you now going to consider the other John's words as the Words and Inspirations of GOD Almighty?
