The apostle John is an eye witness. He saw God through the Lord Jesus from the very beginning. He says he “heard and he saw”. He looked upon and touched with his hands; he knew somehow it, He, Jesus the Christ, was divine life made manifest.  He saw it and testified to it and proclaimed that it is eternal life from God, the heavenly father, and was made manifest to him as a disciple of Jesus, the Christ.

He saw it and proclaims it to me so then I also may have fellowship with the apostles and fellowship with God, my heavenly father, and with his son, Christ Jesus.  John wants me to know these things so that my joy will be complete. The message is that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.  I can walk in the light and have fellowship with almighty God, and with his son, and with his many other children.

I John 1