Thematic Bible: A test of being saints

Whoever denies and repudiates the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses and acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Verse ConceptsWitnessing, Importance OfAcknowledge, Faith In ChristConfession Of ChristConfessing ChristAcknowledging ChristThe FatherGodheadDadsLoving EveryoneFathers Loveatheismconfessing

By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source]; And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, sever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [ nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now it is already in the world.