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- THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD, ONE TRUE JESUS AND THEREFORE ONLY ONE TRUE GOSPEL WHICH SPEAKS OF HIM - |
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estimated that 86% of the world's population is religious. Sadly,
there is an abundance of false gospels being embraced today by the
vast majority of these religious, yet ignorant, people. These
enormously popular and trusted false gospels, 'christian' and non-christian
alike, all present a false god who CANNOT save. The false 'christian'
gospels also present a counterfeit jesus who is not THE Jesus Whom
the true God testifies to in His one and only glorious Gospel. BE NOT DECEIVED, God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, says that only those who believe HIS Gospel will be saved and those who do not believe HIS Gospel will be damned (see Mark 16:15,16). Belief in the truth of God is therefore the starting point to the Christian life. You cannot be, or begin to be, a Christian unless you have passed through this checkpoint. The Lord Jesus says: "I am the Door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved..." (John 10:9). The only true Jesus is exclusively revealed in the only true Gospel. |
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If you do not believe the Gospel you simply cannot be a Christian. |
One must be born again, or, born of the Gospel. BORN OF THE SEED OF THE TRUTH OF GOD. Without belief in the Gospel none can have a trust in the true God and His plan for the salvation of His people. And therefore without this belief or trust in God's Gospel to begin with none can evidence the God-given Gift of Faith with which the Gospel is believed and trusted in. The Word of God says God's people have been chosen to salvation "...through sanctification of the Spirit AND BELIEF OF THE TRUTH whereunto He called you BY OUR GOSPEL..." (2 Thess. 2:13,14). |
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To be saved one MUST be sanctified of the Spirit of God AND one MUST believe the Gospel of God. |
None can presume to be Christian who have not heard and believed the Gospel of Jesus Christ (see Ephesians 1:12,13). None can rightly say they believe in God and trust in Him for their salvation if they have not heard and believed His Gospel, the ONLY Gospel wherein that salvation plan is revealed and which bears witness of Him (Romans 10:13-15). |
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Belief in
God's Gospel includes an all-encompassing and eternal rejection of
every false gospel. |
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which contradicts any part of God's Gospel is a false gospel wherein
is no salvation. Belief in a false gospel is a rejection of GOD'S
Gospel and to reject God's Gospel is to reject the only God Who
saves His people from their sins. To say that one was saved whilst
believing another gospel is to reject the irrefutable fact that
there is only one Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation
(Romans 1:16,17). To believe in a false Gospel is to not have one's
trust in God's Way of salvation and no one has ever attained
salvation without trusting in God's Way of salvation as revealed in
His unique and Holy Gospel. God's Word says, "...there is none that seeketh after God" (Romans 3:11). No one according to their sinful nature knows the True God or even seeks after Him: "...the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God...But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor 2:11,14). The Bible also says "...the world by wisdom knew not God..." (1 Cor 1:21). So we see from this that no amount of religious zeal can ever lead a man to the true God, nor can man's wisdom lead him to the God of the Gospel. The Word of God even says this of the Jews: "...they have a zeal of God, BUT NOT ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE. For they being IGNORANT OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the Righteousness of God..." (Romans 10:2,3). Zeal and a sincerity to follow 'God' and do good to others etc., is no guarantee that one is following the true God. ZEAL OF GOD WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE IS ZEAL WITHOUT GOD. If you do not know the Gospel then you simply do not know God. |
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Without
God's Gospel one cannot know God. |
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A 'pastor' once
told me he does not know 'how much error God is willing to put up
with in His people'. The answer is: NO error that contributes to the
perversion of the Gospel of Christ — thereby revealing another
gospel that God has not declared and another christ whom God does
not claim to be HIS Son — will be tolerated. You cannot be part of
the people of God if the gospel you believe in is not God's Gospel.
Error is the spoiler. Error is the leaven that leaveneth the whole
lump. Error is that which changes truth into a lie and THE Gospel
into another gospel. If you believe another gospel then you believe
another god and not the God of the Bible. No one was ever saved by
acknowledging and trusting in error! |
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Erroneous
teaching always and only leads to an erroneous god. |
| Heaven is
for lovers of the truth, not for those enamored with a lie. Those
who believe a lie, ie. another gospel, far from being saved, are
under strong delusion (2 Thess. 2:11). There are no allowances made
in God’s plan of salvation for those who believe error, for the
whole idea of that Great Plan is that it be believed and trusted in
in order that people can be saved. How can anyone in their right
mind believe that God saves people who do not trust in His plan of
salvation as revealed in His Gospel, but in another plan revealed in
a false gospel? Knowledge and belief of God’s Truth is the
fullfilment of God’s Plan for the salvation of His people (2 Thess.
2:13,14). |
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DO
NOT BE DECEIVED, GOD DOES NOT SAVE ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN
HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION AS REVEALED IN HIS GOSPEL. |
| This is not
salvation by knowledge nor is it doctrinal regeneration. Believing
the Gospel of God does not lead to salvation, it is the result of
salvation. Knowing the Gospel is not some intellectual exercise
reserved for the elite among men, IT IS A MATTER OF THE GIFT OF
FAITH GIVEN BY THE GRACE OF GOD. One cannot be saved without faith,
the faith that comes from, and is given by, God to His people. That
faith is given so that God's Gospel can be savingly believed, so
that God can rightly be trusted in. This Gospel is made up of
doctrines, teachings that must be heard and understood in order that
they may be believed. Enter God's faith. "How then shall they call
on Him in Whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in
Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a
preacher?...how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
Gospel of Peace..." (Romans 10:14,15). Without God's gift of faith
the Gospel cannot be savingly believed. God gives His faith so that
His Gospel, His teachings, may be believed. God saves His people by
grace through faith (see Ephesians 2:8). This faith is not of us but
is a gift of God (see Ephesians 2:9). Salvation is by grace through
faith. Faith in what? Faith in the doctrines of the Gospel of the
Grace of God. To have faith in those doctrines you must hear those
doctrines, understand those doctrines and believe those doctrines of
the Gospel to the exclusion of all others. The Gospel is given by
the Grace of God and believed in by the Faith of God. Grace and
faith work together and there can be no salvation if either one of
these key elements in God's salvation plan for His people is
missing. The grace of God always brings with it the faith of God -
the only faith that believes in God's one and only Gospel. |
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Ignorance of the Gospel is evidence of
the absence of grace and God-given faith, and without faith there is
no salvation. |
| Paul the
apostle spoke to the Christians in Ephesus of trusting, or hoping,
in Christ, "in Whom ye also trusted, AFTER that ye heard the Word of
Truth, THE GOSPEL of your salvation: in whom also AFTER that ye
believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise" (Eph.
1:13). One cannot trust or hope in the true Jesus until one has
heard the Gospel of Jesus, for only the Gospel of God is where God
has revealed His Son. How can one trust in the Lord Jesus if one has
not heard of the true Jesus: what He has done and for whom He has
done it? A cursory reading of the Scriptures often leaves a person with only a superficial understanding of what God is saying and not the proper one. Those who refuse to study and ‘dig deeper’ into a verse or doctrine, display an attitude of prejudice. He who does not reason from the Scriptures reveals a bias against that which he fears he may discover will prove what he believes to be wrong. He who will not reason from the Scriptures is a slave to that which he holds to, which he is not willing to have examined and therefore not permit it to be challenged, even by the Light of God’s Word. He has pre-judged something based on inadequate, insufficient or false information, refusing to allow himself to view ALL the evidence. Such a person reveals an unteachable spirit and an unwillingness to stand corrected and see God’s Truth. He is enslaved by the traditions of men and religious institutions, willfully ignorant of what God’s Word is saying. Such a person is in a religious comfort zone. All he has is a vain religion, the god of which cannot save him. "To act without clear understanding; to form habits without investigation; to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads, SUCH IS THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MULTITUDE." "All men naturally feel that they should earn their salvation, and a system which makes some provision in that regard readily appeals to them. But the apostle Paul lays the axe to such reasoning when he says, '...for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law' (Galatians 3:21)." "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ..." (Galatians 6:14). "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for IT is the power of God unto salvation...For THEREIN is the Righteousness of God revealed..." (Romans 1:16,17) "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is THE POWER OF GOD" (1 Corinthians 1:18) We invite you to read the many articles and booklets which appear on this web site and are happy to answer any genuine questions or inquiries about God's only Gospel. |
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