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True Gospel vs other gospels

Paul rejected this departure from the true gospel and wrote of the great seriousness of
this departure as follows: Gal. 1:6 “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him

that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another;
but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I

now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received,
let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

Based on the above, we can draw the following conclusions:

1. The “grace of Christ” is the true and only gospel.

2. Any departure from teaching salvation from sin by grace alone through the aton-
ing blood of Christ is labeled as another gospel which Paul said is a perversion of the
gospel of Christ.

3. Paul said that any man who would teach any other gospel other than the grace
of Christ should be accursed. The word accursed means to be excommunicated or
excluded from the church.

4. Paul inferred that those who preached another gospel were seeking to please
men and were therefore not the servants of Christ.

The true gospel of the grace of Christ is a very simple gospel and gives all the praise

to God for our salvation from sin. The “grace, but…” doctrine says that man has a
role to play in getting himself saved from sin and therefore gives some praise to God
and some praise to men. This takes away from God’s glory and gives some of the
glory for their salvation to themselves. While this may be pleasing to the flesh, which

desires to think that he can do something to get right with God, yet it dishonors the
finished work of Christ which he accomplished on the cross.