Difficulties

1:1 - Was Jesus God or simply a god? 1:13 - Does this passage support Calvinism? 1:18 - Was Jesus “begotten” in the sense of being created? 2:4 - Was Jesus being disrespectful by calling Mary “woman”? 2:8-10 - Did Jesus turn the water into wine or into grape juice? 2:14-15 - When did Jesus cleanse the Temple? (c.f. Mt. 21:12; Mk. 11:15; Lk. 19:45) 2:14-15 - Why did Jesus get so angry? Was his anger justified? (cf. Lk. 19:45-46, Mt. 21:12-13, and Mk. 11:15-17) 3:5 - Does this passage refer to water baptism? 3:14-15 - How does the story of the brazen serpent prefigure Jesus? 3:36 - Does this passage require obedience in order to have saving faith? 5:31 - Is Jesus’ testimony true or not (c.f. 8:14)? 6:44, 65 - Does this passage teach that God will only draw some people to Jesus and leave others for judgment? 6:53 - Does this passage support transubstantiation? 7:53-8:11 - Does this belong in the Bible? 8:5 - Why were adulterers stoned to death in the Law of Moses? 10:30 - Does this passage invalidate the Trinity? 10:34-36 - Did Jesus believe in many “gods”? 13:1 - Does John contradict the Synoptics regarding the Passover meal? 13:8 - Does the washing of the disciples’ feet refer to justification? 13:18 - Doesn’t this passage imply fatalism for Judas? 13:18 - How did Judas fulfill this passage that was originally about David? 14:1-3 - Does this passage support a pre-tribulational rapture? 14:15; c.f. 15:10 - Why does Jesus use the term “commandments” here? 14:16 - Does this passage predict the prophet Muhammad as Muslim apologists claim? 14:28 - Was Jesus equal with God or not? 15:2,6 - Does this passage teach that believers will be sent to hell for not bearing fruit? 16:5 - Did they ask him “Where are you going?” or not? 18:3 - Was a Roman cohort really necessary? 19:2 - Was Jesus’ robe “scarlet” or was it “purple”? (cf. Mk. 15:17; Mt. 27:28) 19:14 - Was Jesus crucified on the third hour or the sixth hour? 19:28-30 - Why does John cite Psalm 69:21 as a prediction of Jesus? 20:14 - Why doesn’t Mary recognize Jesus? 20:17 - Was Jesus married to Mary Magdelene? 20:22 - Does this support the Pentecostal notion of “Spirit baptism”? 20:23 - Does this passage support the forgiveness of sins through a priest? 20:29 - Does this passage support blind faith? 21 - Is John 21 a later interpolation by the Johannine community? 21:15-17 - Does this passage support the primacy of Peter as Roman Catholic theologians argue? 21:18 - Does this passage preclude the imminency of the rapture? 21:24 - Does this passage imply that the Johannine community wrote this book (or final chapter)?