[Paul wrote to the church in Galatia:] May peace and blessing be yours from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. He died for our sins just as God our Father planned, and rescued us from this evil world in which we live.
   I am amazed that you have so quickly transferred your allegiance from Him Who called you by the grace of Christ to another "gospel"! Not that it is another gospel, but there are men who are upsetting your faith with a travesty of the gospel of Christ.
   You are already following a different "way to heaven," which really doesn't go to heaven at all. Yet I say that if I, or an angel from heaven, were to preach to you any other gospel than the one you have heard, may he be damned! You have heard me say it before and now I say it again - may anybody who preaches any other gospel than the one you have already heard be a damned soul!
   I do assure you, my brothers, that the gospel I preached to you is no human invention. No man gave it to me, no man taught it to me; it came to me as a direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
   [And he wrote these things to the church at Corinth:] I am afraid that your minds may be seduced from a single-hearted devotion to Him by the same subtle means that the serpent used towards Eve. For apparently you cheerfully accept a man who comes to you preaching a different Jesus from the One we told you about, and you readily receive a spirit and a gospel quite different from the ones you originally accepted.
   God never sent those men at all; they are "phonies" who have fooled you into thinking they are Christ's apostles. Yet I am not surprised! Satan can change himself into an angel of light, so is it no wonder his servants can do it too, and seem like godly ministers. In the end they will get every bit of punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
   You think you are so wise - yet you listen gladly to those fools; you don't mind at all when they make you their slaves and take everything you have, and take advantage of you, and put on airs, and slap you in the face.

Taken from Gal. 1, II Cor. 11, The Phillips Translation and The Living Bible.
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