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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.

gnostics. Today there are those who tell you the same thing, that Jesus was a man and Christ was a Spirit who took possession of Him. This is the basic doctrine in Christian Science, New Thought, The Unity School of Christianity, and in Theosophy, and other modern cults. But this is thoroughly contrary to Scripture, for it says, “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus is the Christ is of God”—not that Jesus was possessed by the Christ or was controlled by the Christ, but He is the Christ, and the
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