concord: “We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3). To leave the fellowship of the community is not to choose an equally viable option but to choose a false community. The letter is written “so that you also may have fellowship with us.” In Galatians, Paul tells his readers that to choose another gospel is to choose a non-gospel (1:7). First John makes a similar
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