"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse" (Galatians 1:8)! Paul is anything but ambiguous about what it means to modify the Good News. But why is this such a big deal?
Simply put, to undermine the integrity and the completeness of the Word is to assert yourself above God Himself. We know from Hebrews that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8) and we know from the Gospel of John that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:1, 14). God's redemptive work in Jesus is complete (John 19:30), and the Gospel is the complete story of that work.
If you try to alter the Gospel, then, you are in effect positioning yourself, and not God, as the author and conductor of eternity. May it never be so!
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