The Revelation to John
Note to readers: If you have been reading the New Testament and following along in this blog, thank you. We have arrived at the final book of the New Testament and of the Christian Bible. This blog for Revelation is a little late in coming. June will be a nice month
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Hey Jude… sorry, I couldn’t resist. The Letter of Jude is obviously one of the briefest documents in the New Testament. It appears to be a letter written to a specific community that is troubled by false teachers whose lifestyle the writer considers immoral and whose teachings he considers off the
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Unlike the First Letter of John, which probably was not a letter at all, or at least a very different kind of letter, this document has all the features of a genuine first century letter. Its contents would have fit on one page of standard size papyrus. It is from
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I John 4:1-6: Believing that God was in Jesus as the Christ in a unique way and living in love are two sides of the same coin. The writer has written that we are to love not in word and speech, but in truth and action (3:18). There is, then, a deep
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I John 2:1-6: The writer continues to reflect on the Christian life as a life in which we work against sin while acknowledging that we never quite get there. In the last chapter, forgiveness was emphasized, here the call to work against sin in one’s life. The author writes to encourage the
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