“commandments that we are called to keep; and it is not God generically whom we are to imitate, but Jesus. The literal walking of Jesus and earth-given commandments also contrasts the Gnostic notion of a purely spiritual connection with a heavenly Jesus. 17. While word has a broader connotation than commandments, the terms are practically synonymous. 18. Calvin, quoted in Jason B. Hood, Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2013), 205. 19. Yarbrough, 1–3 John, 88. 20. Luther, “Lectures on the First”