The New Testament writings of John are ingenious. He employed a very small palette of simple terms—almost Hop on Pop-simple—but he used them in a way that imbued each with a rich and subtle blend of meanings. Then he combined these simple terms so as to create profound and complex descriptions of ultimate reality and what it means to believe in Jesus. At the same time, his core messages remain simple, so simple that some of John's sayings are among the first parts of the Bibl