Lambert Sikkema

There is no conversation or dialogue that leads to peace between Muslims and Christians because Muslims do not desire peace between Muslims and anyone. They desire everyone to be Muslim by any and all means necessary. Christians who believe otherwise are being played for fools. Islam is a missionary faith and the Mecca based (later) writings of the prophet Mohammad make it quite clear that anything goes so far as it advances the dominance of Islam worldwide. We do not have a shared ethic with Islam because our standard begins and ends with Jesus, the Christ of God. They are devoted to the moon god Allah. 

Always fascinating to read how modern authors use contemporary psychological/clinical categories to interpret ancient texts. Acknowledging that we all have biases is not a breakthrough in understanding ourselves, let alone the authors of sacred texts.  However, unless you know someone well, you would be hard pressed to delineate precisely how or what exactly the biases of someone are. How anyone could ascertain John's thought process in determining how he would strategically approach the spiritual biases of his readers is mystifying to me. It seems purely speculative at best. It's not possible to proffer a psychological analysis of someone you have never interviewed in person. We only have the 21 chapters of his gospel, his letters and the apocalypse. I think it's more helpful to simply focus on exegeting the text rather than psychologizing the authors.