Calvinism is the Gospel

JonC,

Hello JONC,

Knowing that God is sovereign I would say not one. As a Calvinist grows in grace, he also grows in making a biblically accurate presentation.

Spurgeon spoke against hyper-Calvinists. He also would allude to some who had wrong motives as Jerome is quick and quite eager to point out.

 

There have been several persons who did not agree with the teaching in full, so they
voice objections. In time they saw it, so we have to be patient2tim2;24-26

 

JonC,

That's fine.

Yes< I believe all that Paul spoke about this starting in romans 1 and going through the book of Romans.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

[QUOTE]Do you believe anything less than the true gospel is sufficient for salvation?[/QUOTE]

I am not certain of how you define the true gospel. Whatever portion of the gospel God uses would be sufficient,Gal.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Again , I think the good news has been delivered and believed in many ways, but the one truth in common is the work of the promised seed, the Lord Jesus Christ;

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

The belief system called Calvinism rightly understood and believed[according to the scriptures] is the power of God unto salvation because it is Christ-centered taking in all the scripture and not only presenting man's fall into sin and death, spiritual and physical death at the fall, but God's solution the lord Jesus Christ denying a covenant death for All the Father gave to Him.

LK24:
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

48 And ye are witnesses of these things.

 

SD, we cannot persuade natural men to believe, unless and until God gives them a new heart. We do not know when that is, so we can obey God and remove obstacles that natural men have to the truth of the gospel;
1cor2:
2 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2cor2:
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

2cor5
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

 

Okay...what do you mean by that?
What do you believe is the gospel?
Just the historic facts? or the historic facts as pointed to and explained by all the scriptures?