Are you seriously saying that Calvinism is the Gospel? Surely not …
Hello Selah,
Most people say 1 cor15:1-4...is The gospel...it says so, right!
What i would like to to take time here is to consider the part in 1cor15, you and others skip over!
Notice:
15
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
Paul does not just state the historic facts of the "gospel", but adds in
ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES
SO YES CALVINISM USES ALL 66 BOOKS OF THE SCRIPTURES, to explain what we call the gospel.
From the fall into sin and death, to the electing of God bringing dead sinners to life, to the Covenant death of Jesus
who gace Himself , for All the Father gave to Him. To the irresistible grace drawing them , and keeping them all the way to heaven. So as Spurgeon and many others have said, Calvinism, fully explained according to the scriptures is the gospel.
see here;
Charles Spurgeon: “Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.”
JULY 4, 2014 /
DREW MERY
If there is any doubt in anyone’s mind as to whether or not the so-called “Prince of preachers” was a Calvinist, let the following quotation, taken from his sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:23-24 (“Christ Crucified”), settle it in your minds–Spurgeon was most definitely a Calvinist.
And I have my own private opinion, that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and him crucified, unless you preach what now-a-days is called Calvinism. I have my own ideas, and those I always state boldly. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism. Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor, I think, can we preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the peculiar redemption which Christ made for his elect and chosen people; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation, after having believed. Such a gospel I abhor. The gospel of the Bible is not such a gospel as that. We preach Christ and him crucified in a different fashion, and to all gainsayers we reply, ‘We have not so learned Christ.’ [Spurgeon’s Sermons, vol. I (Baker Books, reprinted 2007), 88-89.]