der Geist

1 John 3:4, 5:18 ESV

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

1 John 4:16, 4:18, 3:18 ESV

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

* 영지주의에 맞서 요한은 순전한 사랑을 역설한다. 우리 안의 사랑은 두려움을 이긴다. 참된 사랑함이 세상을 변혁한다. 추석 연휴, 그 본이 된 어느 가정에게 감사한다. 자신을 높이는 자는 낮아질 것이요, 약한 지체를 섬기는 이는 기억될 것이다.

“Churches spilt after a group of Christians deny that Jesus was truly human. These unorthodox Christians, apparently forefathers of a heresy that explodes into full bloom during the second and third centuries, believe that everything physical is flawed and evil - including the human body. They teach that God, on the other hand, is completely spiritual and good. Christians who embrace this premise are forced to conclude that Jesus only appeared to be physical - but was really spiritual. Furthermore, they argue that the crucifixion plays no role in salvation, they explain, comes from secret knowledge about how to transcend the body. This secret knowledge, apparently expressed in rituals and words, eventually gives the religious movement its name: Gnosticism, from gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge.”