Gospel

1. Everyone who says that the Gospel is nothing without the sanction of the Church, errs and blasphemes God.

2. The summary of the gospel is that our Lord Christ, true Son of God, has made known to us the will of his Heavenly Father and has redeemed us from death and reconciled us with God by his guiltlessness.

3. Therefore, Christ is the only way to salvation of all who were, are now, or shall be.

4. Whoever seeks or points to another door, errs. Indeed, he is a murderer of the soul and a thief.

5. Therefore, all who regard other teachings equal to or higher than the Gospel, err. They do not know what Gospel is.

“The Sixty-Seven Articles of Huldrych Zwingli (1523)” in Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation, compiled with introductions by James T. Dennison, Jr., loc. 20.