love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:9–10). Love, then, not only comes from God but is also fully revealed and manifested in Jesus Christ’s coming in the flesh to make atonement for our sins, to reconcile with his enemies. The apostle John addresses the issue of truth earlier in the same chapter when he tells us that there