1John 4 1-3

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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08/19 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - Beloved, don’t believe every spirit (every wind of doctrine) but test the spirits to see if they are from God, for many false prophets [pseudo-prophétés - one who in God's name teaches what is not true] have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God - every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ comes [erchomai - to come or go; which translators have translated here as “having come”] in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit (teaching) that does not confess Jesus {as having literally come “in the flesh”} is not from God. This is the spirit of antichrist which you heard was coming [erchomai - to come or go] and already is in the world. {I don’t know the greek tenses.. But, if the difference then - his coming understood as literal or not literal was a dividing line, why not the same with his second coming - parousia - presence, coming, arrival, advent? Not that all, today, who listen to the ‘his coming/return is physically unseen’ are antiChrist and are unbelievers at heart, but the teaching may turn out to be?}

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Tomorrows verses - 1John 4:4-6

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

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