Donna Williams Supporter

Dear Anonymous, the answer to your question is no. The Apostle John, the brother of James, was the author of the three epistles written to believers in Christ Jesus. This John was the son of Zebedee. (See Matthew 4:21--22)

John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus, was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth. (See Luke 1:13, 57-80)

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Paul Gerardi Supporter Engineer, Student of the Word - living and written

John, the cousin of Jesus, is John the Baptist. He was a forerunner to Jesus - “The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’ ” (Matt 3:3 NKJV). He was beheaded by Herod Antipas (Matt 14:1-12; Mark 6:14-29) before Jesus went to the cross. He never knew of or was involved with the church (all who put their faith in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection as payment in full for sin and guarantee of eternal life).

John the Apostle is the accepted author of 1John, along with 2 John, 3 John, the Gospel according to John, and the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The reason I say "accepted author" is that other than the book of Revelation, the author doesn't provide a personal salutation using his name to identify himself. Rather, he speaks in the first person (I and we) of things that only John the Apostle could say and not be dismissed as a liar. These greetings are meant to identify himself to the ones to whom the letters were addressed. It is they, and those who learned it from them, that recognized John the Apostle as the source of the letters and treated and taught them as such. 

As a result, from the earliest days of their distribution among and reading in the various churches of Christendom, they were accepted as being written by John the Apostle (son of Zebedee, brother of James, "Son of Thunder") and under inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

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