“I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ & are turning to a different gospel – not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you & want to distort the gospel of Christ.”
Isn’t it amazing that around 50 years after Jesus died & rose again, the apostles warned about a false gospel being spread? We are now in 2022. That’s 2022 years after Jesus died & rose. Can you imagine how much more the gospel message could have been corrupted in that time?
But thank God for His infinite wisdom in giving us His written word, His gospel truth to hold on to in a format that cannot be distorted. We have access to so many original manuscripts from the Bible, with present day translations averaging 99.5% accuracy to the original scrolls. That means we can have confidence in the gospel message when we read the Word of God & rely on that instead of merely on the word of man.
That is the key point – relying on the Word & not on man. Note that those Paul warns not those spreading a ‘new’ religion, but instead distorting the gospel of Christ. To distort means to give a misleading or false account or impression. It also means to twist & pull out of shape.
That implies that there were people, whether intentional or not, altering the pure gospel of Christ’s death & resurrection by twisting the truth & perhaps even providing false information. Let us always remember to lean not on the wisdom of man, which is folly, but instead to seek for ourselves the truth of the gospel of Christ found in scripture.
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