My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God. He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. — 1 John 4:7-8
John does not open with an instruction to perform love, and he does not open by addressing a defendant either. The letter's address is "My loved ones" — repeated again at verse eleven — and that term of endearment is the position the whole passage speaks from, not a softener placed in front of the real business. Every instruction that follows is spoken to someone already held inside the bench's own affection, never to a stranger under examination. The origin John traces from there runs straight back to the beginning — the same declaration Elohim made at creation, when the judges and rulers first spoke identity into existence and reality was bound to follow it. Elohim is not an external deity positioned somewhere beyond the reader. Elohim is the court, the internal government of the reader's own consciousness, the plurality of judges that enforces whatever I AM is dominantly assumed. Love is of God, of Elohim, of the bench itself — so everyone who carries the quality of love has thereby filed the same identity the court is now bound to enforce after its kind, exactly as Genesis 1:26 first declared man made after Elohim's own likeness. This is the same mechanism named in Ask, Believe, Receive: consciousness asks by declaring the desired state, occupies it as already true, and the court delivers, because the filing was never external in the first place. The passage runs the offering thread, the leave-and-cleave union, the day one pattern of light before darkness, and the enforcement against a brother who is hated, all under a single statute fixed at creation and restated here: Elohim enforces love after its kind.
Born of God — Genesis Day Six, After Its Kind
Everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God; he who has no love has no knowledge of God. This is Genesis 1:26 running forward — "Let us make man in our image, like us," the declaration that fixed resemblance as the mechanism of identity ....
