I agree with that bit in red. The apostates are like their father, the devil. The book of Jude confirms they don't have the Holy Spirit. Just like Cain, who was an apostate of old, they are non believers.
One end times Antichrist (man of sin) and several antichrists in the world. "They came out from among us but were not of us" (1 John 2:19)... because they are of the world, not of God. We know that believers are no longer of the world, as we've been taken out of it. The "of" is significant there.
Believers are no longer enemies, and no longer condemned. I don't see any scriptures that say believers go back to being tares, goats, enemies, and named antichrists? You're either in God's family or you're lost in the world.
By the way, I highlighted those letters incase anyone reads this and gets confused between the two (was not for you, as I know you know the difference).
One end times Antichrist (man of sin) and several antichrists in the world. "They came out from among us but were not of us" (1 John 2:19)... because they are of the world, not of God. We know that believers are no longer of the world, as we've been taken out of it. The "of" is significant there.
Believers are no longer enemies, and no longer condemned. I don't see any scriptures that say believers go back to being tares, goats, enemies, and named antichrists? You're either in God's family or you're lost in the world.
By the way, I highlighted those letters incase anyone reads this and gets confused between the two (was not for you, as I know you know the difference).
1 John 2:18-27:
"Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. But you (believers) have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
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