True Christian faith requires knowing that Jesus Christ came in human flesh, hospital lived a human life, recipe and died in the flesh, but the evidence of that faith is measured by the genuineness of one’s Christian lifestyle, not so much by what one “knows.” The radical requirement for love and obedience in 1 John recalls the simplicity of Jesus’ own teaching and the radical response He required of those who would follow Him. These letters recall the church to its origin and cause it to hear afresh the word of Him who came in the flesh and preserved a special place for them in the life and devotion of the church.