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10/16/2024
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“Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God” (2). John urged believers to follow the real Jesus and not to be deceived by people who “spiritualized” Christ but denied or ignored his earthly, bodily existence (3). God “sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him” (9). Rather than a mystical Savior, Jesus showed us how to live as God’s children in the real world, by loving and serving real people.
“We love because he first loved us” (19). Our own thoughts and imaginations don’t create God. We know God through Jesus, who revealed the Father and taught us to love.