doctrine, but to “remain” where they were, to “continue in the teaching (didachē; cf. v. 10) of (i.e., about) Christ.” To deviate from the truth is to leave God behind. God is not with a person who does so. What such a person does, he does without God. This, of course, does not suggest loss of salvation. Instead it points to a doctrinal deviation, with its accompanying disobedience. In contrast with the defector from the truth, whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. This