This may seem to be an unusual sign-off line as John completes his first letter, but it summarises the pastoral warnings of the epistle. The churches had been infiltrated by false teachers seeking to pull the believers into idolatry (an idol is anything which is worshipped, but is not God). As far as we know, the false teachers did not present physical objects to worship, although their culture was full of such statues. Instead, they wanted Christians to worship their religious philosophy rather than the Lord Jesus Christ. And they degraded Jesus – saying that He was not God who had com
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