To love and to love not
“If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” sounds like a big contradiction with “God so loved the world that he gave his only son.”
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Tag: 1 John
Children, young men, and fathers in Christ
Regardless of how long one has been a believer in Jesus, there is always more to know, to grow, and to mature in intimacy with God.
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Love in the light
One can only walk in love if one walks in the light. Somehow, our culture has determined that truth and love are like oil and water; they don’t mix. Truth is seen as harsh and condemning, whereas love is soft and cuddly, and nonjudgmental. In this passage, John shows the fallacy of such reasoning.
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Light banishes darkness…always
“God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” is the foundational truth of the letter of 1 John. All of the other statements in 1 John can be seen to have their foundation in this fundamental statement of the nature of God. In fact, one might apply this to all of Scripture since all creation is designed to bring glory to God.
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So that our joy may be complete
Some people think Jesus Christ is a myth, along with his teachings and miracles. Maybe this describes you. The Apostle John was addressing a similar understanding with the gnostics of his time in Ephesus. They had a problem with the concept that Jesus was both fully man and fully God at the same time.
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