can only cause one to doubt his salvation whenever he sins. The same can be said for the Tests of Fellowship view. To support the position that a believer must pass the tests in order to be in fellowship with God, Hodges notes that the terms in 2:12–14 demand that John’s readers be “genuine Christians” and that his purpose not be their assurance of salvation. If John wrote to believers and eternal security is accepted, then he must necessarily have addressed issues of fellowship among believers rather