I know you know.
It's interesting that you quoted 1 John 1:5-6
What is your understanding on "just as you have heard from the beginning"?
At the beginning as in Deuteronomy 6:5 and in Leviticus 19:18?
At the beginning as in they first heard of Christ?
It's interesting that you quoted 1 John 1:5-6
What is your understanding on "just as you have heard from the beginning"?
At the beginning as in Deuteronomy 6:5 and in Leviticus 19:18?
At the beginning as in they first heard of Christ?
wow i hadn't really thought of that -- i guess John, as a Jew, had the shema and the command to love God since his beginning - since the beginning of Israel as a people! and to truly love Him, it ought to follow that we love each other too, because He also created all of us..
i don't know who John was writing to, and she may have been either a Gentile or a Jew, even a proselyte, who knows? so certainly the command to love one another was part of the gospel she received, but may or may not have been a reference also to Judaism..
double entendré going on there! more than i understand, thanks!