Another Gospel |
From The Primitive
Baptist
Aug-Sep 2020 |
Elder
Mark Green |
Galatians
1:6-7 “I marvel that you are so soon removed. From him
that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another
gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that would
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel: Which is not
another; but there be some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ.”
Brother Paul here claims total exclusivity for the
Gospel. Dash the gospel that he had preached to the Galatian
churches. He maintained that this gospel was not taught to
him by men, but had been revealed to him. Directly to
heaven. One of the main things arouses the ire of our
religious opponents is to claim to exclusivity. It is not
the fact that we claim to be a true religion, but that we
claim to be the true religion that inflames. Their passions
against us. If there is another gospel, then there might
also be a third and 4th, and so on. If a religion may be
legitimately duplicated, with various alterations, on every
hand, then it becomes currently obvious that there can be no
logical claim of truth by that religion, since one fact.
will do as well as another for them.
The apostle
Jude contended for the faith which was once delivered unto
the Saints. If it was once delivered, then it is manifest
that Amendments were not delivered later on. If there is one
gospel, and that gospel was once delivered, then it must be
the case that there cannot be any other true gospel.
Therefore anything that comes along which differs from
Paul's gospel must be a false gospel, and therefore not a
gospel.
Paul told Titus that God cannot lie; He is incapable of
falsehood. That very fact alone establishes exclusivity for
the Gospel. If it is from God, then it must be true. If it
is true, then anything that differs from it must be false.
If the gospel, (the Bible) admits the possibility of
falsehood, then it is no better than the writings of any
wise, but infallible, human being. If it makes no claim to
inerrancy, then why should we base our religion upon it?
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