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John’s epistles speak against errors concerning the deity of Christ. In particular, he addresses Gnosticism, Docetism, and Montanism—teachings which have plagued the church ever since John’s first warnings. Ironside’s commentary on 1, 2, & 3 John serves as an excellent starting point for discussions about false teachings in the church today.

Then there is the word “love”—“God is love.” We are to “walk in love.” After the death of Paul, somewhere around A. D. 67, there arose among the churches, particularly in Asia, a sect that we know today as Gnostics. An agnostic, you know, is a man who says, “I do not know.” People seem to like that term; some of our young folk go off to college and when they get a smattering of knowledge, they say, “I am an agnostic; I don’t believe in this and I don’t believe in that.” Charles Spurgeon used to say
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