It was absolutely nothing like what Christendom presents to its churches today as the gospel.
If the apostle Paul went in to a church in Christendom today and preached what he preached in the time of his commissioned ministry, they would throw him out, telling him he was preaching a false Christ and a false God.
We need to get back to "sola scripturea" in reality and reject the traditions of men that have developed since the second century. Let us remember the word of the apostle Paul as he warned those he spoke to and all of us these words:
Acts 20: 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
This was happening right at the end of Paul's ministry and has continued on down to the present time.
Notice that what Paul warned believer's about was already happening toward the end of his ministry:
2 Timothy 1:15: This know you, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me.......;
2 Thessalonians 2:7: For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now let [holds back] will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Jude's warning needs to be heeded today:
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only true God, and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
We need to learn what is means to deny the only true God [John 17:3] Yehovah and what it means to deny the uniquely begotten son of Yehovah - God, our lord Jesus God's anointed one - the Messiah! Only the scriptures can provide the true answer.
Reject any testimony that comes from men and cannot be proved simply and directly from the scriptures and you will begin to follow the narrow path that leads to deliverance into the coming Kingdom of God, life in the new age as a new creation in the lord Jesus! May that day soon come!
If the apostle Paul went in to a church in Christendom today and preached what he preached in the time of his commissioned ministry, they would throw him out, telling him he was preaching a false Christ and a false God.
We need to get back to "sola scripturea" in reality and reject the traditions of men that have developed since the second century. Let us remember the word of the apostle Paul as he warned those he spoke to and all of us these words:
Acts 20: 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
This was happening right at the end of Paul's ministry and has continued on down to the present time.
Notice that what Paul warned believer's about was already happening toward the end of his ministry:
2 Timothy 1:15: This know you, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me.......;
2 Thessalonians 2:7: For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now let [holds back] will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Jude's warning needs to be heeded today:
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only true God, and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
We need to learn what is means to deny the only true God [John 17:3] Yehovah and what it means to deny the uniquely begotten son of Yehovah - God, our lord Jesus God's anointed one - the Messiah! Only the scriptures can provide the true answer.
Reject any testimony that comes from men and cannot be proved simply and directly from the scriptures and you will begin to follow the narrow path that leads to deliverance into the coming Kingdom of God, life in the new age as a new creation in the lord Jesus! May that day soon come!
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