Infidelity & Another Gospel, Is There A Difference?

Some time ago I learned that listening to the Bible is an incredible tool to force yourself to avoid Proof-Texting. When Paul sent letters to assemblies he ordered the people to read them out loud to all the brethren and to even go from assembly to assembly reading them. Of course if you want to get into deep study there is little better than a printed page you can pour yourself over. But we are very visual people and we can get caught up in a single verse or even word and fail to see what the Author was writing about. It's so very easy to find ourselves declaring things as though they come straight from Scripture that are absolutely false... because we people are so prone to proof-texting.

I'm writing today with a bit of a heavy heart. We must hold the Gospel in the highest esteem and proclaim it with the highest of fidelity. But we must also be careful how we use the term "another gospel" that the Apostle Paul makes use of in Galatians 1. When Paul uses this term he's speaking to people about them being brought into bondage that is counter to the Gospel. Not that some detail is left out or even incorrect. Likewise everywhere else that Paul challenges what people preach as being not in agreement with the Gospel he is speaking of the implications not the content.

No one can rightly deny that the Apostle clearly lays out what exactly is the Gospel in 1 Cor 15:1-11 and I hold that this is the one and only Gospel that saves. And I question the fidelity of any who say different. However, there is much more to the idea of preaching another Gospel than not speaking Paul's exact words.

I'm struggling with this little post. And I realize that most reading will have no idea why. The Truth is a very fine line. One little nudge left or right puts you squarely in error, outside of Truth. One can not simply eliminate portions of what the Apostle declared without affecting what the Gospel is saying. That is as plain to me as anything. But I can not bring myself to believe that one who is mistaken in this is preaching "another gospel."

I guess I need to explore this more.

But to get back to the listening part, if you listen to Galatians as one sermon especially without reading along you may just be amazed at the force of this letter. And you may see the Apostle's teaching clearly for the first time ever.