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1 | Then love is a litmus test? | John 13:35 | kalos | 106686 | ||
Aixen74 writes: 'John does give criteria for judgment, does he not? '“Believe not every spirit”, he says, “but try the spirits to see whether they are of God.”' I reply: 1 John 4:1-3 (ESV) Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many FALSE PROPHETS have gone out into the world. [2] By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, [3] and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. (Emphasis added.) When taken in context, it is quite obvious that verses 1 and following pertain to false prophets, i.e. false preachers and teachers. John gives criteria for discerning false prophets from true. This is all he gives criteria for in this passage. |
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2 | Then love is a litmus test? | John 13:35 | Aixen7z4 | 106692 | ||
Exactly. That is the point. He that is of God hears God's words. And God calls us to love. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Speak the truth in love. But let your speech be with grace, seasoned with salt, lest the brother be offended. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hops all things, endures all things. Love never fails. There are false prophets. But whosoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. |
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