I am curious. What is the Gospel in it's most simple purest form?
I know we have just went thru the baptism requirement with preacherintraining but taking it even beyond that, what is the most simple form of it?
Examples:
1) Does Jesus even have to be considered God by the person being saved to be saved?
2) Does the person even have to understand or know for that matter our concept of the Trinity theology to be saved?
Does not this stuff come with more spiritual understanding after you are saved?
I can remember 17 years ago when I accepted Jesus as my Saviour, I had no understanding of ANY of this stuff on here. All I did was call upon his name believing in that I needed him! Nothing fancy, no baptism of water, no Trinity concept, and no OSAS theology, just in calling upon His Name(Jesus).
Don't want to open up a can worms here but it was on my head today.
I know, I should spend more time at my job thinking of work instead of thinking about this
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