6 counterfeit gospels

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Good summary of the leading distortions regarding Christianity that we see today. What are your thoughts?


http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs...in-light-of-story-announcement-and-community/

 

[Yeshua1]

Good summary of the leading distortions regarding Christianity that we see today. What are your thoughts?


http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs...in-light-of-story-announcement-and-community/

would say the biggest threats to real christianity are internal, in that we have many of us saved, but 'fans" not disciples of Christ, as we have right doctrines but does not show up in how we live our lives, and that we allow for aberrant/heretical theology from likes of WoF, and that we have also denied the reality of Sin and the Cross, having remade salvation as doing and saying right thigs, as all basically still 'good"...

 

[TrevorL]

Greetings Earth, Wind & Fire,

Good summary of the leading distortions regarding Christianity that we see today. What are your thoughts?

In the article you referred to the author gives a brief definition of the gospel, and then compares 6 counterfeit views of the gospel. His assessment of 6 counterfeits may be valid, but I find difficulty with his own summary of the gospel. Here is his definition of the gospel:

I described the biblical gospel by using the analogy of a three-legged stool.
There’s the Gospel Story – the grand narrative of Scripture (Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration).
Within that overarching framework, we make the Gospel Announcement about Jesus Christ (His perfect life, substitutionary death, resurrection, exaltation).
The gospel announcement then births the Gospel Community: God’s church – the embodiment of the gospel, the manifestation of God’s kingdom.

This definition of the gospel is different to my understanding. I believe that Jesus’ death was representative and not as a substitute Romans 6:1-8, Galatians 2:20. I also believe that the principal aspect of the Kingdom of God is the Kingdom that Jesus will establish when he returns to set up his kingdom upon the earth and reign from Jerusalem Psalm 72, Isaiah 2:1-4, Daniel 2:35,44, Acts 3:19-21, 8:5,12.

Kind regards
Trevor