Eternal Life

I John 1:2 – “The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.” In verse 1, John establishes God’s rational and communicative nature through His use of words.  The Word is the sum of what He has communicated, the total of His thought and character.  This totality is extension of God as our words are an extension of us. ... 

The Word of Life

I John 1:1a – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,…” John immediately establishes that he and the other apostles are reporting eyewitness testimony.  The Gospel is not some second, third, fourth, nth hand rumor.  It is not some fairy tale.  It isn’t a fiction devised to take advantage of others.  It is the absolute truth as experienced by real people. “…which... 

God and Time in The Epistle of 1 John

The apostle John tells us a great deal about the nature of God in his first letter.  And he wastes no time getting to it. I John 1:1 – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched — this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.” ‘That which was from the beginning…” This first phrase begs the question: The beginning...