Here John equates the existence of religious knowledge with the act of love. Knowledge of God (the Truth) as a set of propositions is utterly absent; instead he claims that those who exhibit a genuine love know God, regardless of their religious system, while those who do not love cannot know God, again regardless of their religious system. Truth is thus understood as a soteriological event. This word ‘soteriological’ is derived from the term soteria, from which we get the word ‘salvation’. In precise terms the word refers to a cure, remedy or healing.
