Finally finished this book…took me a little while. Not because it was long or hard, simply got distracted from daily Bible reading/study. Other things got in the way.
Will only say that at the end of First John is a theological mind-bender. You could spend hours in debate and discussion on some of the verses in chapter 5. However, that is what the enemy (the people who don't want you to follow) wants you to do. That way you don't spend your time on what is more easily understood.
When I get to heaven, I'll ask God about all the difficult passages in the Bible. In the meantime, there is enough work for me in doing the things He clearly said to do, and not doing the things He clearly said not to do.
I wonder how many people who were offered a place in the lifeboats on the Titantic wanted a full understanding of where they would go, who would pluck them from the sea, and how they would survive in that puny little boat before they stepped in faith into the boat?