A Different Gospel
Ga 1:6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to A DIFFERENT GOSPEL,
7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
The Gospel is the Good News that Christ died for the sins of sinners and rose again from the dead, and that if we put our trust in Him and what He did on the cross, we will be saved.
To present another plan and method of salvation aside from this is a DIFFERENT GOSPEL. It is a perversion of the GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
When someone comes to you and tells you that in order to be saved you must be a member of their church, he is preaching a different gospel.
When another comes to you and tells you that in order to be saved you must obey the 10 Commandments, he is preaching a different gospel. God clearly tells us that "...a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ..." Gal. 2:16
When somebody says that in order to be saved we must pay for our sins by our sacrifices, he is preaching a different gospel. For we are not saved by our sacrifices, we are saved by the sacrifice of Christ.
When a moralist comes to you and says that we are saved by good character, by being ethical, by altruism etc., he is preaching a different gospel. Salvation is not by Christ and by being good. Salvation is solely by faith in Christ. Being good is the result.
Any method of salvation that is based on self and what self can do is a different gospel. The true Gospel, the only way of salvation is based on the Savior and what He did on the cross.
