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map of Ephesus and ColossaeTrying to correct distorted Christian preaching

These three short lettersย of 1, 2, 3 John are the kind of letters you write when you donโ€™t want to write letters.

Which could explain why theyโ€™re so short.

Clearly, there was a problem that generated those letters. But John doesnโ€™t give the problem a name. Many scholars speculate it was a heresy later called Docetism (DOE suh TISS um), though at the time it probably didnโ€™t have a call sign other than words like โ€œtrash,โ€ โ€œcrap,โ€ and โ€œhogwash,โ€ depending on a Christianโ€™s vocabulary and temperament.

Bible experts base their speculation on Johnโ€™s unusual words of warning. Nothing like this shows up anywhere in the Bible but in the writings of John. Weโ€™ll call him John since early church leaders said he was John, the disciple of Jesus.

Warnings

The warnings? John feels compelled to remind the readers of this.

Jesus was human, not a spirit ghost. โ€œIโ€™ll tell you how you can recognize Godโ€™s Spirit in someone. People led by Godโ€™s Spirit will acknowledge Jesus Christ came here as a flesh and blood human beingโ€ (1 John 4:2).

God the Father and Jesus the Son are one, whatever that means; John doesnโ€™t explain it. โ€œAnyone who rejects the Son has already rejected the Father. But anyone who believes in the Son also has the Fatherโ€ (1 John 2:23). โ€œEveryone who loves their Father loves his Childโ€ (1 John 5:2).

Believers are one with God. โ€œAnyone who obeys God is spiritually linked to him, united. God lives in that person. Godโ€™s Spirit and the spirit of that person become one, making decisions together. We know this because the Spirit God gave us lives inside of usโ€ (1 John 3:24).

Backward engineering the Bible

Bible experts backward engineer those reminders into the problems that produced them. Scholars say itโ€™s possible people who attended the church were trying to convince others that Jesus was just a spirit being who only pretended to be human (Docetism), and that we can never live up to the example he set because weโ€™re only humans made from clay and full of dirty deeds.

When John starts his letter, he leads with that. Essentially heโ€™s saying, Now wait a minute, my fellow apostles and I know better because โ€œweโ€™ve touched him with our handsโ€ (1 John 1:1).

You canโ€™t touch a spirit, the mistaken folks apparently taughtโ€”as though they would recognize a spirit if one pinched them a good one.

The warped view of Jesus seemed to produce warped behavior. Folks apparently taught that if we believe in Jesus, it doesnโ€™t matter what we do in this world. Go ahead and lie, cheat, and steal. We canโ€™t help it because weโ€™re flawed humans.

John said those ideas are spiritually lethal. He taught that people are capable of goodness because Godโ€™s Spirit lives in us.

โ€œMy dear children, Iโ€™m writing this to steer you away from sinโ€ฆ Thereโ€™s one way to tell if we really know God: we obey himโ€ (1 John 2:1, 3).

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