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The Final Word Blog
Introduction to 1 John
1 John was written to 1st century believers in Asia Minor to guard themselves against a pernicious heresy that today we know as incipient or pre-gnosticism, a cluster of teachings that took sin lightly, believed in salvation by 'enlightenment' via secret rites, and was socially elitist, etc. To expose them and to give believers some benchmarks by which to test themselves John provides some tests of authenticity.
Gnosticism may have come and gone but certain features of it continue to ...