In First John, the Apostle John was classified as a mender. He mended that which is broken by dissecting the first-century heresy the Gnostic. At the end of the 1st century, John writes this letter. It explained how Christian truth had come under severe attack and heresies had come into the church. John's function as an apostle was to return the early Christians back to the church. However, in every century there have been ecclesiastical leaders who have been charged with heresy. Many commentators suggest that the secessionists whom John denounced were forerunners of the Gnosticism. They challenged other forms of Christianity. In First John, it is a response to Gnosticism. The response had a dual view of the spirit and the physical world. The
