Thanks for your response bro. I would have to disagree with you here though.
Baptismal regeneration? Heard of that one? How about Oneness? How about the sign of speaking in tongues having to be an immediate sign or you're not saved? That goes on around here. How about the JW "gospel?" These are mixtures of errant soteriology and an errant gospel is the result.
How about Provisionism? Do you have to be choice meat? The list of things one must have done to be elected, to merit grace? That false system will continue to devolve into more and more errors.
So, when I have some convert wailing at sin, which seminary do I send them to first before God opens the gates to the Kingdom? Sorry, you don't have a Thd, so God doesn't want you? There is no needed knowledge outside of the gospel. Paul did not add ANYTHING to Christ crucified. In fact, he cursed those who did...which when fully translated out, he damned them to hell.
It's more than just Christ crucified when we hash it out though. Biblically the statement is inclusive of these things (death, burial, resurrection, sighting).
Why are you hashing anything out? That guy you are preaching to is dying, but you need to hash things out? I'm sorry, you can't get saved yet, I'm only on page 37 of 50? Oh, and since you can't remember the first 37 pages, that's bad? The fact that those things are inclusive means they don't need to know it, right? We are talking about the salvation of souls here, not the bestowing of Thds or Phds. That all comes after. That is soteriology. The study of salvation, not the gaining of salvation.
I wouldn't stop there as it would be naive of me to think that they didn't use their message for new converts. And for the record? Paul called it "another gospel." They were preaching it as such; Galatians 1:8-10.
They used their message for new converts. Where is the rest of that context?
"6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; [they were already saved]
7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; [Hmmm...troubling whom? Paul's audience, members of the Galatian church.]
8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!
9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!
10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be."[Note Paul even said if he changed the message, and one different then was already proclaimed to them (hmm...still dealing with converts), then let them be accursed.]