Episode 54: Don’t believe everything you hear
Download MP3In some ways, John’s world may have been a bit less complex than ours; he didn’t live in an age of information technology in which we are bombarded by differing opinions and ideas from every side. But the confusion his readers were experiencing in the wake of the controversy that divided the community was difficult enough. At the beginning of chapter 4, therefore, John introduces the idea that believers must wisely “test the spirits” to see whether they are from God—or somewhere else.
In some ways, John’s world may have been a bit less complex than ours; he didn’t live in an age of information technology in which we are bombarded by differing opinions and ideas from every side. But the confusion his readers were experiencing in the wake of the controversy that divided the community was difficult enough. At the beginning of chapter 4, therefore, John introduces the idea that believers must wisely “test the spirits” to see whether they are from God—or somewhere else.
