Surely we can find the truth about the gospel by doing a Google search, right?

• “the gospel” 95,300,000 results
• “the gospel message” 6,550,000 results
• “the gospel of Jesus Christ” 46,300,000 results
• “the gospel of the kingdom of God” 1,320,000 results
• “the true gospel” 1,490,000 results

How many different “gospels” do you suppose are represented there? I can tell you one thing for sure: I’ve scoured the internet looking for the gospel as I see it and have yet to find it. And if one is willing to play games with the truth and can believe that close is good enough, then find a gospel that includes the words “God”, “Jesus Christ”, “sin”, “salvation”, “love”, “forgiveness”, and “eternal life” and your search is over. But you might as well make up your own gospel, because unless you get it straight from God himself, that’s what you’re doing anyway.

By the way, what brought you here? A search for the truth? Curiosity? Looking for trouble?

If you’re looking for a fight, you should know that your ancestors attempted to change our Lord’s mind and failed, so they attempted to kill him and failed at that too. As we are witnesses, he is alive and saying the same things he has always said. So I’m not saying we won’t fight with you; we might have no alternative. What I am saying is that you would be wise to know who you are picking a fight with. Our Lord is lord of your lord, so we can not lose a fight with you. Besides that, our message is one of peace and good will. We mean no one any harm.

You’re not the first to ask questions, so I’ll ask them for you:

Question: So why do you think that the gospel you believe is the only true gospel?

Answer: Because I believe it.

Question: Why should I believe what you believe?

Answer: Only you can answer that question.

Question: Am I wrong if I do not agree with you?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So everyone who disagrees with you is wrong?

Answer: So you’re point is that I’m wrong unless I agree that someone else is right? Would I be right if I agreed with you? If I agree with you could I then say that I am right and those who disagree with me are wrong?

If you were sure of what you believe you probably would not be here, or you probably would not have wasted the time to read this far. So let me ask you some more questions:

1. Do you know why you believe anything?
2. Are you your own creator? (Because either you are your own creator or you have always believed someone else. You don’t know anything but what you are told.)
3. Do you know who taught you what you now believe?
4. Are you looking to be right, or are you looking to be sure?

You’re the judge. You live or die by the judgments you make. So you tell me: am I right, or am I wrong? Are you sure?

Have you ever been sure you were right and then become just as sure that you were wrong about what you were sure was right? It’s one thing to be sure and another to be right. What one needs is to be sure that one is right.

What I believe and present as the true gospel is not just some “sound bite” of what Jesus teaches, or a “get out of hell free” pass. It’s the only Way to be sure of the only Truth, which to know is Life.

You don’t need to make an accurate judgment of me, you need to make an accurate judgment of yourself. You live or die on account of what you believe, not what someone else believes. You’re the one who needs to be right.

The gospel I’ve been and am being taught – what I believe and am telling you is nothing more or less than God’s unconditional promise to make you as right as he is. The God who made you in the first place, the God who gives you a life that you must live right or wrong can make you right. If you don’t trip over that idea, then you should read on or contact me.

Surely you agree that believing is not optional, that believing truth or lies is not optional, that being right or wrong is not optional, that you can’t believe anything other than what you believe (i.e., can not believe and not believe the same thing at the same time), and that you have always believed someone else.

Understand what I am saying: if you believe that you decide what you believe, that you decide what is true and what is false, then you believe that you are your own creator. You worship and serve yourself rather than your creator. You don’t have any alternative but to trust yourself. And regardless of what you say about salvation being by God’s grace alone (if you believe what most folks we encounter believe), you also believe that you make yourself his child.

God can not tolerate rivals. You know you did not create yourself; you did not make you a believer of anything. You believe what you are taught. You have been believing someone else from the beginning. Who have you been believing? It isn’t God you’ve been believing or we would not be having this conversation. If you knew him you would know me; you would get what I’m saying.

Let me say what I have said thus far another way. There are two things of which I am sure regardless of what anyone else thinks: I am, and I am not my own creator. There is no sense in speaking with anyone who disagrees with me on these two things. My mind is made up!

On these two points the God of the Bible, the God and father of the Lord Jesus Christ and I agree. Furthermore, the God of the Bible claims to be the creator of all that exists, including me. He is and is the creator of all that I can know anything about. He is the creator of those who know anything about him and what he has created, including themselves.

The Bible adequately addresses and explains the things of which I am most certain. Furthermore, the good news (gospel) is that if I agree with him about his son, Jesus Christ, God has made me a believer; he has given me the right to become his child, a child exactly like Jesus Christ, who is exactly like his Father. The gospel is the good news of my salvation from believing the lies that offended, angered and alienated me from my Creator.

The message from God which I have been told is that because of God’s anger I should be dead, but I’m not. I am not dead and this world full of evil people like I was is not destroyed yet because God is merciful and kind and wants me to live; he is still creating and raising children. God could have left me in the dark about himself and me. But he sent Jesus Christ, made sure that I heard about him, and through him not only expresses his forgiveness and love, but is revealing the truth about himself, about me, and his purpose in creating me (which so far as I know at this point is that he wants companions – friends who share the pleasure of being who he is).

Not only this, but Jesus Christ, who has always been my Lord though I did not know it, and who is the Lord of all that exists, is in charge of instructing, correcting, rebuking and encouraging me so that I grow up into what God created me to be. If God is for me, who can be against me?

What have I said? I’ve said that I believe what I do because my Creator has made and is making a believer of me. I worship him, not me. I trust him, not me.

Do I need the agreement of others to know that I am right? No, I do not.

So why am I telling others what I believe? Well, for one thing it’s hard to keep a friendship secret, and impossible when the friend is the most influential being there is. For another thing, my family is looking for it’s lost members.

I’ve explained why I believe what I do. I rest my case with God. If you disagree, can you give me a better answer than I’ve given you as to why I should not believe what I do? (That’s a rhetorical question. No such answer exists. All you can do is tell me what about man or history or something makes it impossible for God to do what he said he is going to do and is doing. But if it would make you feel better to get it out, then contact me.)

If you see your spirit in me – if you agree with what you read on this site you might be a child of my Father, your Creator. Let’s get together and see if we can get along with one another. If we can, we’ll be friends forever.

For further reading:

• Just Another "True Gospel"?
• The True Gospel
• The Gospel of God’s Love
• What is Salvation?

The gospel of Christianity is a message created and believed by the worshipers of man. To ensure successful deception it is a lie compiled using the words of Scripture, and endorsed by a great number of charismatic messengers who masquerade as ministers of Christ while unwittingly serving Satan.

This man-made gospel of Christianity correctly asserts that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, that the wages of sin is death, that Christ died for sinners, and that all who believe in and confess faith in Jesus Christ will be saved. It also correctly asserts that salvation is by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

However, for all of it’s correctness it portrays a false concept of God’s purpose and work in saving the objects of his mercy. That the gospel of Christianity is not the good news from God is plainly demonstrated in that the salvation it proclaims is not the work of God which accomplishes his purpose. Those who believe the gospel of Christianity insist that due to the weakness of man they must fall short of God’s glory for as long as they dwell on earth.

The true gospel, or good news proclaimed by God through the Lord, Jesus Christ is the announcement of the arrival of the time set by God to fulfill the new promise he made to the descendants of Abraham, his chosen people. Through his prophets God refers to the time issued in by Jesus Christ as “the year of the Lord’s favor”.

During the time beginning with the coming to earth of his first born son, Jesus Christ, and through his virgin birth, sinless life, unjust death, burial, resurrection and crowning as the Lord of all, God fulfills the promise he made through the prophets of making new creatures like Jesus Christ of those who believe in and receive him. In fulfilling this unconditional promise God creates a family of righteous and holy persons like himself with whom he can and will enjoy fellowship forever, beginning while they are in the body on the earth.

Though the scriptures used in the gospel of Christianity are true and an essential part of the full message of the true gospel, the message of Christianity does not begin to comprehend the gospel of the kingdom of God fulfilled in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who believe it do not know God whom to know is eternal life. They are not saved.

By contrast, those who hear and believe the good news that the time of the Lord’s favor and the fulfillment of his promise has come realize the purpose of their Creator in creating them, which is eternal fellowship with him as those whom he has made like him. They are those who as The Apostle Peter instructed, “Continue to pay attention [to the words of the prophets] as you would to a light that shines in a dark place as you wait for day to come and the morning star to rise in your hearts.” (2 Peter 1.19, GWT)

Footnotes:

(1) “American” is the name of one of the world’s philosophies, all of which are the expression of man’s worship of himself rather than his Creator.
(2) “Christianity” is a term coined by unbelievers which is neither found in the Scriptures nor accurately used when speaking of Christ’s teachings. The very term misrepresents and distorts the person and work of the Lord, Jesus Christ, who is The Truth. None who know the Lord Jesus Christ speak of him in terms which diminish him to mere ideas which can then be debated and manipulated by men as if he were one of the world’s many hollow and deceptive philosophies.

• Just Another "True Gospel"?
• The True Gospel
• The Gospel of God’s Love
• What is Salvation?