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Showing posts with label gnosticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gnosticism. 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 ...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

1 John 4:1-6 - Testing the Spirits

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The mention of the Spirit, the pentecostal gift, as decisive of the question whether God abides in believers, suggests that a safeguard shou...
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...
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...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Introduction to the Epistles of John (5): Purpose and Historical Setting

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  PURPOSE AND HISTORICAL SETTING. In the estimation of deeply spiritual minds the First Epistle of John holds the highest place in that se...
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...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

St. John Versus the Gnostics

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"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:8 KJV) I wish you to notice the connectio...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Error of Antinomianism

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Theological errors move in cycles, some times of very long periods. They resemble those comets of unknown orbits which occasionally dash int...