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Showing posts with label gnostic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gnostic. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2025

John Against the Gnostics.

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 SUPPLEMENTARY STUDIES IN THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN - Part 1. It is said in the Encyclopædia Britannica that the persons addressed in this ...
Friday, December 6, 2024

1 John 2:29 & Concluding Thoughts on Chapter 2

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ii. 29-v. 12. GOD IS LOVE. c. ii. 29-iii. 24.The Evidence of Sonship: Deeds of Righteousness before God. The Children of God and the Chi...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Themes in 1 John 1 (4): Gnosticism

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"Gnosticism."  It's name is Grecian ( gnosis ), but its origin is Asiatic. It is difficult to define this heresy. It is a co...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Themes in 1 John 1 (3): Self-Deception

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"Self-deception."  Says Haupt: The word 'deceive' used by John in verse 8 occurs in no other document of the New Testame...
Monday, November 11, 2024

1 John1:5-10 - God is Light

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  i. 5 - ii. 28. GOD IS LIGHT. a. i. 5 - ii. 11. What Walking in the Light involves: the Condition and Conduct of the Believer. Fellowsh...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

A Note on 1 John 1 - Against Dualism

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The words which open this First Epistle of St. John — an appeal to three of the five senses in proof of the reality of Christ's body — s...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Introduction to the Epistles of John (2): St. John"s Literary Activity

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  ST. JOHN'S LITERARY ACTIVITY. His authorship is a striking characteristic of his old age. Sacred scholars now quite generally agree ...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Entire Sanctification

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"But may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, soul and body, be preserved entire without blame, in the co...
Monday, January 27, 2014

"To Have Sin" (1 John 1:8)

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QUESTION: In I John 1:8, "If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us," is John speaking of Christia...