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Someone
asked this rhetorical question:
'Can
anyone be saved by a false gospel?'
In
the mind of the inquirer, his rhetorical question demands a negative answer.'
It is also obvious that he has eternal salvation in mind.
The
question presupposes two popular fables...
- a
man is saved by the gospel.
-
and that salvation is eternal salvation.
What's
the gospel? It is the good news of what God has done through His Son Jesus
Christ to save His people with eternal salvation. Jesus Christ secured eternal
redemption for His people. The gospel is the good news that God alone has saved
His people through the life and death (i.e righteousness and blood, or the
active obedience and passive obedience) of Christ. The gospel makes known that
work of eternal salvation of the elect by God in Christ alone, and is applied
to each elect personally by free grace alone. That's the gospel.
Even
the purest and most pristine gospel DOES NOT SAVE. It only declares the eternal
salvation that has ALREADY HAPPENED by God's grace, and the relevant hearers
are called to believe the truth of their eternal salvation conveyed in the
gospel.
False
gospels fail to faithfully present the truth of the work of eternal salvation
by Christ, and applied to each individual by God's free grace alone through the
Holy Spirit.
The
gospel presents faithfully the truth of the work of eternal salvation by God's
free grace in Christ Jesus applied freely to each elect by the Holy Spirit.
The
gospel presupposes the ALREADY finished work of eternal salvation. It declares
the good news of the eternal salvation already accomplished, and applied to
God's children... those already regenerated... already saved with eternal
salvation!
Otherwise, there would be NO gospel! The gospel is good news of eternal salvation ALREADY
ACCOMPLISHED, and APPLIED... and the recipients are called to believe the truth
of it.
The
gospel saves - those whom God HAS ALREADY SAVED with eternal salvation by His
grace - from lies, superstitions, and traditions, ungodliness, worldliness, etc
and brings them into the truth of their eternal salvation by God's free grace
in Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit... teaching them to live soberly,
righteously and godly, in this present world....
That's
VERY DIFFERENT from saying the gospel saves (i.e. eternal salvation) in the way
so many imagine!
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Sing
You
ask good questions. People who ask good questions NORMALLY already have the
answers to their questions. So why don't you tell us the answers?
<looool>
Obey
the gospel... believe the truth conveyed by it. Stop believing lies and
falsehoods.
Many
of God's children DON'T obey the gospel... they continue believing fables and
fiction!
Jerry
Right!
Bro. Sing., the Scriptures itself declare the purpose of the gospel... Tim.1:9
says it is God Who saves us before the world began and verse 10 says the gospel
brings life and immortality TO LIGHT... the gospel reveals the life and
immortality that God has given His people...
Sing
My
answer to your question:
Obey the gospel of their eternal salvation... believe the truth conveyed by the gospel concerning their eternal salvation.
Repent,
and stop believing lies and falsehoods and fables and superstitions about their
eternal salvation.
Sing
If
one thinks (and there are very many who think so) that the parables are all
about eternal salvation, then they are all about eternal salvation!
'Walking
in the gospel' and living in the gospel' - not very familiar terms with me. Are
they PB terminologies?
I'm
familiar with these:
11 ¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ,"
Sing
1Cor
9:14 - 'Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should
live of the gospel.' Live OF the gospel!
Gal
2:14 - 'But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of
the gospel...'
Quite
different from ''Walking in the gospel' and 'living in the gospel' Beware of
sound-byte!
Robert
Beavan
Could
an Apostle heal another Apostle?
Sing
Could
an Apostle heal himself?
I
know an apostle can do something to save himself!
1Co
9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any
means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Robert
Beavan
Leviticus
26 v 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will
not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to
break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Robert
Cook Sr.
All
who believe this should share it with those they care about, because there is
bondage for God's people in lies and fables
Sing
A
friendly Cook said,
"A
false truth helps no one! This is something satan would want you to believe.
Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can save you."
(he has deleted all his comments)
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A
false truth??? Just like saying a black white!
If
only the gospel of Jesus Christ can save you, please tell us how it saves you!
Robert
Cook Sr.
Sing
me? I re-read what every one wrote but did not see false truth in the comments?
other than yours? Anyway if someone were to say that, I would understand that
as a fable presented to the hearers as a truth. The gospel in the scripture is
intended by our Lord to save us from fear of death and condemnation and doubt
of His love and motivates us to serve Him more perfectly in a pure conscience.
Robert
Cook Sr.
Bro
Sing,. I need to shed my ignorance, I see my brother posted, for which I am very
thankful, for his interest in this topic. Go easy, Sing
Robert
Cook Sr.
I
did not know responders needed to click on photo, so their comments do not show
up on this page, sorry
Sing
Then
it should be the Gospels..... with the uppercase 'G' ... the four Gospels -
Matthew, mark, Luke and John - are historical accounts. But these historical
accounts ARE ALSO profitable for doctrines... unless you deny them to be
Scriptures!!!
2Tim
3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Sing
Please
learn to distinguish between the Gospels (upper case G and in the plural s)
from the gospel (lower case g and in the singular). If you don't you will not
communicate clearly... but misleadingly.
You
said that Romans-Philemon is our Doctrine... plainly implying that the rest is
not for doctrine.
I
said the WHOLE Scriptures, including those besides Romans-Philemon, is
profitable for doctrines.
Have
I made myself clear? Thanks
Robert
Cook Sr.
Leslie, how about false "Christian" teaching?
(Leslie has also deleted all his comments!)
