Is Romanism Christianity? 101 down the Holy Spirit to be His only Vicar and Representa tive on earth; that He is the only Mediator between the righteous God and sinful man; that it is by the Holy Spirit alone that we are convinced of sin, and led to trust in Jesus; that all who trust in Him, and obey Him with the obedience of faith and love, are saved, and, being saved, are made “kings and priests unto God,” and have “eternal life” in Him. This is Christianity, the Christianity which the Apostles preached. But side by side with the Apostles, Satan went forth also, and preached what Paul calls “another gospel.” Paul did not mean that it was called “another gospel;” but that as ^Satan “beguiled Eve through his subtlety” (2 Cor. 11:3), so some, while professing to teach the Gospel, were turning men away “from the simplicity that is in Christ;” and by doing so, did, in fact, teach “another gospel.” . Paul, speak ing of those who were thus deceived, said, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gos pel of Christ.” He means that there can be but one Gospel, though something else 'may be called the gospel; and he says of those who had thus perverted “the Gospel of Christ” : “If any one preach any other gospel unto you . . . let him be accursed” (Gal. 1:6-9). He calls those who did so “false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming them selves into the apostles of Christ;” and he adds, “no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be trans formed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” (2 Cor. 11:13-15). Let us consider well the meaning of these passages of Scripture. Paul says that there cannot be another Gospel; the conclusion, therefore, is evident, that these teachers were not teachers of Christianity, but of a Satanic delusion.
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