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The book of first John is one of a distinct nature and character, a book that stands in a sense on its own, a book that by the questions about it's authorship and structure proclaims it individuality and inclusion in the canonical structure of the scriptures themselves. We see in the book of first John, the dealing with a very specific issues, a sort of which carries with it a legacy to our contemporary times, in it's relevance and subject. With a distinct vantage point in a temporal sense, the epistles of John shows how the theologies of the apostles where specific, logical, and Christ focused, a focus that history has a way of distorting. The author(s) of the Johannine epistles had a clear focus on the fellowship of the body of Christ, the logical defense of the nature of Christ and a need to confirm the loving nature of the Son of God in both action and deed. Through a thorough examination of the historical, literary and theological distinctives of this book, we come to a fuller......

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