Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about 2 John.

The book of 2 John is a follow-up letter to the book of 1 John, which is presumably

written by John, the disciple, John, the son of Zebedee, John, the guy who wrote the

gospel of John, John, the guy who wrote Revelation.

According to all the earliest sources, that's the John who wrote it.

What we know for sure is whoever it was, it's the same guy who wrote first, second, and

third John, because it's all dealing with the same situation.

The same situation is that some false teachers came in to some churches in Asia Minor, probably

around Ephesus.

They started messing with the Christians there, and teaching some dualistic Greek philosophy

about light and darkness, and that philosophy couldn't contain what the account of Jesus

was.

It wasn't compatible with Jesus, so these false teachers started saying, no, he never

really had a physical body.

The physical world is bad, physical things are evil, so no, it had to be that Jesus was

just a spirit who looked like an actual body.

They're trying to force Jesus into their Greek philosophical presuppositions, and it might

sound like it's just an absurd little philosophical debate, like freshman year of college or something,

but it turns out it actually has really far reaching implications, and it derails these

Christians and rattles them, and they're not sure what to make at things anymore, and

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