One Evangel to the Entire Creation

27/08/2010

By Mark Farquharson

There are those who teach that there are two evangels, or gospels, one for the circumcision, those in Israel and another one for the nations, those of the uncircumcision.

During the time of the Open Door Ministry, the evangel is to go to the nations. I thought it was important to point out the fact that there is only One Evangel, that is for both the nations and Israel. The disciples where told to give this evangel to the entire creation. This is the evangel that will go to the nations during the time of the Open Door Ministry.

The text below in the rest of this article is from Version 4 of the One Evangel article, and is additional text that was not in version 3.

It is believed that the evangel that Paul got from Christ, was another evangel to the one that Christ gave to the disciples. Thus the one Paul got was another evangel, to the one Peter had. The one the disciples had was meant to go to those in Israel, those of the circumcision. The one Paul had was meant to go to the nations. However Christ himself stated that the one that the disciples had was for the entire world.

After Christ’s resurrection, Christ was manifested to the eleven, remaining disciples.

Mark 16:14 Now subsequently, at their lying back at table, He was manifested to the eleven, and He reproaches their unbelief and hardheartedness, seeing that they do not believe those who gaze on Him having been roused from among the dead." {CLV}

He reproached their unbelief and hardheartedness, because they had not believed that He had been roused from the dead. Christ then told them to do something with the evangel, while He was gone.

Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world; herald the evangel to the entire creation. {CLV}

He told them to “herald the evangel to the entire creation.” That is the evangel that He give to them, was to go to the entire creation. Israel is not the entire creation, it is only a small part of it. Which means that it was not just to go to the Jews or those of the circumcision, it was to go to the entire world. This means it was to go to the nations as well as those in Israel. The entire creation, does not just mean the Jews, it means all mankind. If it was meant to just go to the Jews then He should have said to them, to herald the evangel to Israel only. But he did not, He said the entire creation. He even instructed them to “Go into all the world.” That is they where to take the evangel to all the world, which clearly does not just mean the Jews. If this evangel that they got was just for Israel then He should have instructed them to just go to Israel with it.

Peter being one of the eleven disciples was told by Christ to herald the evangel to the entire creation. This means that the one he had was for the nations as well. This means that there are not two evangels. Paul was for the nations, and the one he got from Christ was the same one Peter had, that was for the entire world.

Now if Paul’s evangel was another evangel to that which Peter had, then there would have been two evangels for the nations, not one. There would have been the one Peter had, that was for the entire creation, that is for Israel and the nations, and there would have been Paul’s evangel which was just for the nations. However those who teach that there are two evangels, have only one for the nations. Why would there need to be two evangels for the nations? Was one not enough? Clearly there did not need to be two evangels for the nations.

In fact there is no need for two evangels, one for Israel and one for the nations, because only one is needed for the entire world. The one Paul got from Christ was the same one that Peter had, that was for the entire creation. Which means the one Paul got, was the one that Peter had, it was the same evangel, the one that was to be heralded to the entire creation.

Those who teach that there are two evangels, seem to not know that the one Christ gave to Peter was for the entire world. There was no need for another evangel to be given to Paul, because the one the disciples had was for the entire world.

For a lot more on there being only one evangel refer to my article: “One Evangel”

Copyright © Mark J Farquharson 2010

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