1-3 John; Jude: “God is Love”

When John and Jude wrote their epistles, corrupt doctrine had already started leading many Saints into apostasy. Some false teachers were even questioning whether Jesus Christ had actually appeared “in the flesh”.

(see, for example, 

1John 4:1–3; 

2John 1:7

Can we identify with these times?

What can we do in these times?

What did John do?

“This is the testimony which we give of that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life” (Joseph Smith Translation, 1John 1:1 [in 1John 1:1, footnote a]).