The Preacher’s Curse

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Commenting on Galatians 1:8, Oliver B. Greene said,

“It would be difficult to find anything from Genesis to Revelation more dreadful than that statement. The devil may transform himself into an angel of light, and his ministers may transform themselves as the ministers of righteousness; but whether it BE an angel from Heaven, or one of the devil’s emissaries transformed as an angel . . . or even if it be Paul himself . . . if that person preaches any other gospel than the Gospel of the grace of GOD which Paul had already preached to the Galatian Christians, Paul said, ‘Let that preacher drop into hell . . . let that preacher be accursed! Do not let him deliver any message except the message of the grace of GOD!’

“In Galatians 5:12, Paul thunders out, ‘I would they were even cut off which trouble you!’ That statement would not go over so well, either, in one of the meetings of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America - or The World Council of Churches, where birds of a feather flock together and demand that all ministers come under their wings.

“GOD have mercy on any two-legged human being who claims to be called of GOD, who claims to be a minister of God . . . and yet will support atheism and liberalism such as in these councils of churches around the world.”

Oliver Boyce Greene, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, 1962