The Source of the Gospel

What is the gospel of Jesus Christ? Paul makes it clear in his letter to the church at Galatia that there is only one gospel. Anyone who proclaims a gospel that is contrary to what the church at Galatia has received is to be accursed! (Gal 1:6-9) The authority for saying this is that the gospel that the Galatians had received from Paul was of divine origin and not human origin (Gal 1:11-12). The gospel, in this context, is not the message about the life, teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus. Paul makes it clear in his first letter to the church at Corinth, that he had "handed on to them as of first importance what [he] in turn had received." So to what does Paul refer in his letter to the Galatians? It is the outworking of who Jesus is and what he has done. It is the truth that salvation is by faith alone. It is the truth that the offer of salvation is to all on the basis of faith in Jesus. There is no other name and no other way in which a person can be saved. Max.