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Chapter 11: I Write These Things as a Warning to You.
I ADDRESS THESE THINGS TO YOU: my beloved, not because I know any of you to be in such a state, but as less than any of you, I wish to guard you beforehand, so that you do not fall into the traps of false doctrine, but instead may attain full assurance in Christ. Christ was begotten by the Father before all ages, and was later born of the Virgin Mary without any human intervention. He lived a holy life, healed every kind of sickness and disease among the people, and performed signs and wonders for humanity's benefit. To those who had fallen into the error of polytheism, He revealed the one and only true God, His Father. He underwent the passion, endured the cross at the hands of the Christ-killing Jews, under Pontius Pilate the governor and Herod the king. He died, rose again, ascended into the heavens to Him who sent Him, and is seated at His right hand. He shall come at the end of the world, with His Father’s glory, to judge the living and the dead, and to reward each person according to their deeds. Whoever knows these things with full assurance, and believes them, is happy; just as you are now the lovers of God and of Christ, in the full assurance of our hope, from which may none of us ever be turned aside!