On the gospels' theological agenda In authoring the last gospel, john did have the advantage of being able to mull over theological issues for a longer period of time. So i asked Blomberg, "Doesn't the fact that john was writing with more of a theological bent mean that his historical material may have been tainted and therefore less reliable?" ... "Yes, at one level it does," he replied. "But if we can reconstruct reasonably accurate history from all kinds of other ancient sources, we ought to be able to do that from the gospels, even though they too are ideological." The example of the Holocaust was raised. The jewish scholars have a very ideological purpose -- to ensure that such atrocity never occurs again -- but they have also been the most faithful and objective in their reporting of historical truth. This is the same for Christianity, isn't it?
