“Test the spirits.” A snippet of a verse that we all know. What on earth does it mean? Is John pointing out some extra-sensory perception that special Christians have? Are believers to tune up some special, spiritual gift-given antennae with which they can discern the unseen world of demonic forces and beings? Or is John […]

John now presses his readers to identify what the false teachers really are, and from whom their errant doctrine of Christ comes: the lying Serpent of old, the enemy of God and so of them! John drives a wedge between his dear readers and the false teachers and doctrines, to split them so there is […]