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The Core of Falsehood
John identifies the ultimate liar as one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Commentators explain this goes beyond simply denying Jesus's existence. In John's time, it referred to Gnostic teachers who separated the human Jesus from the divine Christ, diminishing His incarnation and atoning death. Today, any teaching that undermines Jesus's true identity as both fully God and fully man, the promised Messiah, falls into this category of fundamental falsehood.
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1 John
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Albert Barnes
On 1 John 2:22
18th Century
Theologian
Who is a liar. That is, who is false; who maintains an erroneous doctrine; who is an impostor, if this person is not? The object of the ap…
AT Robertson
On 1 John 2:22
The liar (ο ψευστης). The liar (with the article) par excellence. Rhetorical question to sharpen the point made already abo…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 John 2:18–28
19th Century
Bishop
[8] THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS (1 John 2:18–28).
[a] Signs by which they should know the forerunners of the las…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 John 2:22–23
19th Century
Preacher
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whoever denieth the Son, the…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 John 2:22
“Who is the liar?” v.22 asks and then rhetorically answers by pointing to those antichrists who promulgate the particularly pernicious falsehood th…
John Calvin
On 1 John 2:22
16th Century
Theologian
Who is a liar? He does not assert that only those were liars who denied that the Son of God appeared in the flesh, lest anyone, in untying…
John Gill
On 1 John 2:22
17th Century
Pastor
Who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the
Christ ?
&c.] Or that very Christ…
Matthew Henry
On 1 John 2:18–23
17th Century
Minister
Every person is an antichrist who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, they deny the Father also, and have n…