2 John 7-11

“Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work” (2 John 7-11).

This is talking about itinerant teachers who are teaching error, a very specific error. They are teaching that Jesus did not come to earth as a true human, that he only appeared to have a human body. The Elder warns that hospitality is not to be extended to such a person. This does not justify refusing hospitality to those who disagree with us on some point of theology.

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