Tag: christianity
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The Bible is Sufficient
Every scripture is God-breathed and beneficial for teaching, for exposing wrongdoing, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the person of God may be fully competent, being equipped to accomplish every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Above is a picture of my snow blower. It came with an operator’s manual to help me know…
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First John 5:1-4: God is Love
Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…
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First John 4:19-21: God is Love
Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…
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First John 4:7-8 / Overview: God is Love
Third Proclamation Section: God is Love. 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God because God is love. 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed…
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First John 3:1-3: God is Righteous
Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…
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First John 2:26-28: God is Light
Warning: Walking in the Light is Not Compatible with Denying the Son 2:18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many have become antichrists. From this we know that it is the last hour. 2:19 They separated from us, but they were not part of…
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First John 1:3-4: Prologue
Prologue 1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked at intently and our hands touched, concerning the Word, the source of life – 1:2 This Life was revealed. We have seen it. And so, we testify to it and proclaim to you this…
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First John 1:1-2: Prologue
Prologue 1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked at intently and our hands touched, concerning the Word, the source of life – 1:2 This Life was revealed. We have seen it. And so, we testify to it and proclaim to you this…
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First John: Prologue Overview
Prologue 1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked at intently and our hands touched, concerning the Word, the source of life – 1:2 This Life was revealed. We have seen it. And so, we testify to it and proclaim to you this…
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First John: Book Structure and Outline
This post continues a long series that comments on the New Testament book of First John. In this post I comment on some of the major elements of the structure and present an outline of the book. As noted in the previous post, First John was written to address a crisis that was disrupting the…
Koine Foundations 