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The New Testament epistles that we know as First, Second, and Third John offer us an important glimpse into the life of the early Christian church, particularly as it struggled with teachers of false doctrine. Of the three, the only one which does not focus on false teachers is Third John, where the problem was an apparently orthodox church leader named Diotrephes, who had managed to become the...

V. Purpose In First John the apostle writes out of a concern that certain false teachers may be given a hearing in the church or churches he is addressing. Since they essentially deny the fundamental truth of the Christian faith, namely, that Jesus is the Christ come in flesh (1 John 2:22; 4:3), their doctrine strikes right at the heart of all Christian experience. The readers, who are clearly Christians themselves (2:12–14, 21; 5:13), are therefore not in danger of losing eternal life—which cannot
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