Spearman, H. Dwayne. The Book of Acts Rightly Divided (p. 7). Directional Bible Ministries. Kindle Edition.
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
The Apostolic Timeline
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Bad Interpretation
Spearman, H. Dwayne. The Book of Acts Rightly Divided (p. 2). Directional Bible Ministries. Kindle Edition.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Another Gospel
Notice ye are so soon removed from him that called you. The question is who is the him in this verse? Some say that it is God (cf. NASB) while others say that it is Paul himself. The Greek simply says the one. The context (verse 9) seems to dictate that it is referring to a man; most likely Paul himself. If so, that would mean that he was speaking in the third person.
There is a compare and contrast happening with the grace of Christ and another gospel. The gospel given to Paul was the grace of Christ or what he often referred to it as his gospel (cf. Romans 2:16; Romans 16:25; 1 Timothy 1:11; 2Timothy 2:8). Paul is the only one who ever claimed that the grace gospel was his. Of course, there was a reason for that.
The other gospel was a perversion of that gospel that required works, i.e., no gospel (good news) at all. Paul also warned the Corinthians of this in 2 Corinthians 11:4 when he wrote, For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Sadly, the other gospel could not save them. I believe that this other gospel was a mixing of the kingdom and the grace gospels that formed no gospel at all because, when mixed, they cancel one another out. One clearly teaches a salvation by works, while the other does not.