We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death (1 John 3:14).
The greatest hiatus is defined for us by the most simple words. The Community is addressed the aged Apostle in an irresistible manner. He offers no apology for his words. He does not need to do so because they have been immersed in the crimson of the Cross.
There is a ritual that is embedded in the very language that he uses. There is a sacrifice here that he does not ignore as if to appeal to the uninitiated ones. The Community must know that the Cross is always the compelling and underlying ethic of all genuine encounters with one another.
There is a secret knowledge that we can possess about who we are. We can know that we have passed over from the anguish of death to the freedom of eternal life by the love we have for our brethren. Our brethren are of us. We are not complete without them and neither are they complete without us.
The is a viral, malicious, and self-deceptive of Faith that propagates the lie that we can redefine the Faith once for all given to the Saints in terms of non-normative racial psycho-social mandates. The cross of the Iesous does away with all superficial and self-important mandates.
Look at what is going on around and think carefully about all of the confusion, anger, lies, murders of character and souls of others, murders of the bodies of others for lust or profit and then think about how all of these terrible realities would be overthrown if love controlled our actions instead of self-interest.
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