Since when has Christianity been bombarded with perversions?
Christianity has been bombarded with perversions since the turn of the century, when higher criticism started in Europe. Perversion is not merely gutter-level vice; it is any twisting of the truth far enough to be off-center and mislead people. The Galatians experienced this when false teachers added Mosaic Law to the gospel.
Les explains that Christianity for the last number of years—going all the way back to the turn of the century when higher criticism started in Europe—has been bombarded with perversions. He defines perversion broadly: it is anything that twists the truth far enough to be off-center and mislead people, not just something in the gutter. Paul recognized the Galatian churches were being perverted by someone telling them they also had to keep the Mosaic Law. Paul then warned that even an angel from heaven preaching another gospel should be accursed, and Les shudders to think of the end of someone who perverts this gospel.