John warned that Christians are to be on guard against “antichrists” — whom he defined as those who deny that Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:18,22). He also challenged believers to “test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). The test He prescribed was to ask the person in question to confess that “Jesus Christ has come in the flesh” (1 John 4:2). Nearly all of John’s second epistle is devoted to a warning against false teachers. As John puts it: “Many deceivers have gone out into the world” (2 John 7). He then states that “anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God,” and he admonishes believers in the strongest of terms to avoid association with such people: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching [the teaching of Christ], do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds” (2 John 9-11).

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