Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Synthetic Gospel: What Shall We Do?

Acts 2:37-39. Unfortunately, more and more we can see a nice and cool "gospel" being preached out there, that is everything but Jesus Christ's Gospel. It's very inclusive and politically correct (Christ's gospel includes only the ones who accept it), sometimes it looks like the real one, it's what i call the "synthetic gospel". Synthetic because there are personal ideas and theories added to it, making it "easier to digest" and "more exciting" than Jesus' Gospel. In the text above, verse 23 ... you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death, Peter was straightforward and said without any reservation what they did with Jesus. Peter didn't judged or condemned them of murder, he spoke the "truth in love" and the Holy Spirit convicted them of their sin. The problem with the "synthetic gospel" is that it is partial: God is only love; the Truth is never absolute (half-Jesus); the "self" never dies, it only becomes a better "self" and there's never true repentance involved, there's only remorse (true repentance leads to life (David), remorse leads to death (Judas Iscariot), no wonder it is a powerless gospel. Of course, as Paul the apostle wrote in 2 Timothy 4:3-4, in this last days, people are "stacking up" teachers that are telling them what they want to hear, preachers that are preaching the "synthetic gospel", prophets that are speaking "prophetic fables" and all of this because they (people), as Paul said, have itching ears but will not endure sound doctrine. So, what shall we do with the "synthetic gospel"? Reject it and embrace Jesus Christ's Gospel!

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