Confess the Word come in flesh; Jesus is the Only-begotten sent

“By this the Spirit of God is known: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.” So do we confess Jesus as a human and as one like us — or rather that the Word, being God, became flesh, not neglecting to be God, but rather remaining what he was even if he became human? This is not doubtful. So the one who does not say that Christ is truly God, but divides and shrinks his glory, will be caught having the spirit of the antichrist.

“And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world; whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God.” We say that the Son has been sent from God the Father — that is, the Only-begotten Word from him by nature — and that he was named Jesus when he also endured the birth according to flesh from a woman economically. So the Word from God became human. And if someone confesses him thus, he has God remaining in him, and he himself will also be in God; for God will remember him and will also count him as his own, as a sharer in him. But the one who does not confess that the Word from God the Father himself is Jesus — having lowered himself into humanity — would neither grow rich with God in him, nor himself be in God according to the mode of spiritual kinship.

“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” So the one who does not believe would not even be counted among children…