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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...

purposes intertwine. From his polemical concerns (i.e., the content of the false teaching) arises John’s pastoral counsel (i.e., his corrective message). For example, to the impostors’ “gospel” that is contrary to what the Ephesians received (see Gal. 1:9), John upheld the necessity of belief in Jesus’ incarnation and obedience to his commandments, especially that of brotherly love. True Christian disciples “live in the light ([1 John] 1:5–2:29) as children of God (3:1–5:13).”6 Following many commentators
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