7.6: Pretending to be the Good News When it's Not

<p>I have a love-hate relationship with social &nbsp;media. I need to use it for my business and to help spread the Gospel of &nbsp;Jesus Christ, however, it’s full of FAKE NEWS! Moreover, it’s really &nbsp;hard to distinguish what’s true and what’s fake! You have to go to &nbsp;resources like <a href="https://www.snopes.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Snopes</a> or <a href="https://www.justfacts.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Just Facts</a> to verify if it’s true or not.</p> <p>Likewise it is with the Good News of Jesus Christ or <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2020/06/30/how-to-discern-between-the-gospel-truth-and-a-false-teacher/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">the Gospel</a>. How do you know that the church you’re attending is preaching the true Gospel? <strong>You read the Bible! </strong>You &nbsp;have 27 books in the New Testament that reveal, preach, explain and &nbsp;prophesy the Good News of the true salvation of Jesus Christ. [Related: <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2020/04/04/who-were-the-authors-of-the-4-gospels/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Who Wrote the Gospels?</a>] &nbsp;The problem is, some churches don’t encourage you to read the Bible for &nbsp;yourself. At least the Roman Catholic Church I grew up in didn’t. My &nbsp;parents didn’t either. They didn’t know better. They, too, were raised &nbsp;Catholic.</p> <h2>The Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Galatians</h2> <p>Scholars say that that letter to the “churches of Galatia” may have &nbsp;been the first epistle that Paul wrote. Probably because he explains in &nbsp;the first chapter where he got his knowledge of the Gospel of Christ. &nbsp;Why is he an authority? He’s the “Johnny-come-lately” of the apostles. &nbsp;He encountered Jesus after the resurrection. He was one of the Pharisees &nbsp;who’s stood by and watched Stephen get stoned to death (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%207&amp;version=NLT" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Acts 7</a>).</p>