Espanol y Biblia

• OK, so one translation of spouse from English (duh!) to Spanish is esposo. Now, the translation for handcuffs is . . . esposas. HA! I thought that was funny.
  
  
• 1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
  
  This is related to my fear-love thing (and no, I'm not even sure if I've ever written something about that on this blog). See, there is NO fear in love. It's a process: beginning in fear for fear is the beginning of wisdom and ending in love, the end of fear. In wisdom, we begin to learn of Christ's mission, His purpose, His obedience. We fear what God may do to us because we put His Son on the cross, but when we understand--when we gain insight--we gain wisdom, because our understanding has opened up to us the reality of Christ's crucifixion: obedience and blamelessness by Christ for the redemption of all who confess their nature and need for Christ through the pouring out of perfect blood.
  
  Those who do not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh are not to be considered truthful. They are to be considered Antichrists. Now, notice it is not that they say, "Jesus the Christ, the Son of God who is God, did not come in the flesh"; it says someone "that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh" (1 John 4:3^a3). This means that the person--through which some spirit is working, whether of God or of the other--either says nothing of Christ coming in the flesh or says that Christ has come in the flesh but is not God. In other words, if people never say that Jesus came as a man and as God, he is not of God. Essentially, not saying that Christ came as a man as God in the flesh is the same as saying He didn't come at all or didn't come as God. At least, this is what I would say from a logical point about saying Jesus is not the Christ or saying nothing about Jesus being the Christ. All of that is from verses 1-6^a
  
  ^a = 1 John 4:1-6:
  
  [1] Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. [2] By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [3] and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
  
  [4] You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. [5] They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. [6] We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.