SON, Joung Bun. "Logos on the Preface of the Book of John and Dispensational Theory of the Son of Man."Berea Forum 1 (2006): 282~306. The preface contains the image like the self~declaration of God, and this is the way to testify though the mouth of J...
SON, Joung Bun. "Logos on the Preface of the Book of John and Dispensational Theory of the Son of Man."Berea Forum 1 (2006): 282~306. The preface contains the image like the self~declaration of God, and this is the way to testify though the mouth of John. Logos in the beginning and God who sent him, preexistent Logos and the life of Creator in him, the light which the ruler of darkness, who dare not do anything and cannot help being defeated. There is no gap for man to get in among the follows: God's sovereign work is strong in the testimony of Baptist John, the authority as children to gain by believing in the name, the glory of the Father's one and only Son. Man just welcomes Jesus and receive the fullness of grace, dwelling in grace and truth.
Therefore, once we illuminate it according to the picture of God's will based on the Hebrew way of thinking, this preface is able to be interpreted in a well balanced way at last. It is the required consideration that the extreme purpose of Logos' incarnation is no related to man's sinning and possible to be broader than redemption and salvation in the world.
Facing the preface of the book of John in this point of view, in terms of coming of the Son of Man, the horizon of interpretation is possible to be extended. That is, the Son of Man's heir theory, the Son of man's destruction of the devil, and the Son of Man's soteriology.