Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
I have tonight finished my study of 1 John. It has been a slog and I think it is his style. John infers and alludes to rather than spells things out. I much preferred Romans, 1 Corinthians or even Song of Solomon or Ecclesiastes.
It made me realise that I have yet to tackle the gospel of John distinct John is. I have yet to tackle Revelation by the way)
Q1. Anyone else struggle with 1 John and what approach helped most? I happened to be working on converting HD video files from the Strange Fire Conference and listened again to the way "word of faith" TV personalities (I was going to say preachers)distorted Biblical doctrines about who Jesus was and then went on to call us equal to Jesus. You can't really stray too far from Biblical Christianty without attacking/undermining the Biblical Christ. As Justin Peters said, "...they are not Christians.." It echoes John when he says the secessionists had the spirit of the antichrist. That helped a lot.
Q2. How do you get inside the author and really comprehend his style of writing?
It made me realise that I have yet to tackle the gospel of John distinct John is. I have yet to tackle Revelation by the way)
Q1. Anyone else struggle with 1 John and what approach helped most? I happened to be working on converting HD video files from the Strange Fire Conference and listened again to the way "word of faith" TV personalities (I was going to say preachers)distorted Biblical doctrines about who Jesus was and then went on to call us equal to Jesus. You can't really stray too far from Biblical Christianty without attacking/undermining the Biblical Christ. As Justin Peters said, "...they are not Christians.." It echoes John when he says the secessionists had the spirit of the antichrist. That helped a lot.
Q2. How do you get inside the author and really comprehend his style of writing?