What is the gospel that God revealed to Paul?
Paul received by revelation that Christ, the Son of God and Messiah of Israel, died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. This gospel is not based on Judaistic law or merely on Messiah's identity, but on His death, burial, and resurrection.
Les teaches that Paul received this gospel by revelation, as Paul wrote in Galatians. It is not based on Judaistic law, nor is it based only on the fact that Christ was the Messiah of Israel. Rather, the Messiah of Israel, the Son of God, died on the Roman cross, shed His blood, was buried, and rose again. Paul delivered first what he also received: Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and arose again the third day according to the Scriptures. This was not an accidental martyr's death or a sudden stopgap; it was in the pre-eternal mind of God. The risen Christ was seen by Peter, by over 500, and by Paul himself.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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