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Faith, Eternal Life, Being Born of God, Avoiding Sin – All Linked in 1 John
John the evangelist in his first epistle links being born again to believing (1 John 5:1&4), as one would expect, but also to not committing sin (1 John 3:9 and 5:18), having the seed of God (1 John 3:9), doing righteousness (1 John 2:29), loving one another (1 John 4:7 and 5:1), loving God (1…
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Turretin's "Sources" for 1 John 5:7
Matthew Everhard has video (link to video) in which he suggests that the historic Francis Turretin was not being honest in his defense of Johannine Comma (the longer reading at 1 John 5:7-8). I note that Everhard is working from a different translation of Turretin than that found in P&R’s publication, namely the Dennison translation.…
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1 John 5:7 – Francis Turretin and the Textual Evidence
Some “TR friendly” questions/comments, I recently received. I’m posting them without attribution for now, but I’ll update with attribution if my interlocutor would like. After all, these issues are less about him (or me) and more about the truth of the matters we are discussing. His comments are bold in quotation marks, whereas my responses…