1 John — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that wants its religion to be a private, spiritual, and ultimately abstract affair. He will tolerate a Christ who is a metaphor, a symbol, or a personal guru. But the one thing he will not tolerate, the one thing that sends him into a rage, is a Christ who has hands and feet, a Christ who bleeds, a Christ who can be touched. We live in an age of frantic identity construction. Modern man believes that he is the product of his own imagination. He thinks he can define himself, declare himself, and demand that the rest of the world ratify his self-created reality. The Apostle John, as he brings this magnificent letter to a close, does not do so with a gentle, fading whisper. He is a master of the stark contrast, the black and white reality. We love nuance, not because we are intellectually sophisticated, but because we are morally compromised.
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