or of belief in the Lord Jesus Christ as God incarnate. The tests have been developed one by one, but it has been obvious even as John talks about them that they belong together and that each is important. But which is most important? In one sense this obviously is an illegitimate question, for any approach to the tests is illegitimate if it allows us to minimize one of them. For example, if we say doctrine is most important, we thereby imply that we do not need to live a righteous life or love one