How should Christians call out false teachers? That's just one of the questions we'll be

answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor

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You can also post your question on one of our social media websites, and you can email us anytime at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Dee in Nashville, Tennessee. Dee, what's your question for, Adriel?

Hello, gentlemen. I've been studying 1 John 3 and 5, specifically the references to the idea that the person

born of God does not sin or cannot sin.

And as you know, there's many interpretations, and there's two in particular that I thought

seemed feasible or strong, and I wanted to get your opinion on the pros and cons of both of these.

One being that it's making a distinction between the flesh which does sin and the seed of God within us, or the spirit of God, which cannot sin,

and the other being the idea that it's talking about a very specific sin,

the sin into death and not sin in a general sense. I wanted to see if you thought either of

those interpretations was the correct one, or if there's some other one that you think is better.

Hey, Dee, thank you for that question.

So one of the issues with First John is just the context as we approach this book,

it's important for us to understand that the audience, the original audience,

there had recently been some kind of a split or schism in the church.

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