2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already
According to Ehrman:
https://books.google.it/books?id=T7zDCg ... 34&f=false
, in a later manuscript the same passage is reported so:
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that looses Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already
To make it an attack against separationist christians.
My question: isn't the passage as we have it normally already per se an attack against separationism?
If your answer is no, do you think that who is attacked are docetists?