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How can we know that we possess eternal life? The apostle John lays out the answer in his three eponymous epistles. John answers that we must first believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Christ came in the flesh. Second, we are to obey God’s commandments. Third, we must love others. In this illuminating and engaging commentary on John’s letters, pastor-scholar Douglas Sean O’Donnell...

proclaim the message about Jesus: “that which we have seen and heard [and “touched”! 1 John 1:1] we proclaim also to you” (1 John 1:3). He aligns himself with those few men who qualify to be apostles because they witnessed “all that he [Jesus] did” (Acts 10:39; cf. 1:21–22; Luke 1:2) and were “chosen by God as witnesses” (Acts 10:41). So, then, in sum, the “we” representing the “apostolic we,” as it is sometimes called, best explains the language of ear, eye, and hand testimony, as well as the whole
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