ScottA
Well-Known Member
Verbatim quote please.
1 John 1:1-3
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
That is not how history unfolded.He did abandon the apostate church, but preserved His True Church.
You seem to have overlooked the reference to the True Church in my post.
Ever heard of the Reformation?
The reformation came 1500 years after false teachers had entered into the early church spreading destructive doctrines the reformation did by no means fully correct.