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What is the Gospel?
How to distinguish the real thing from the impostors.
Impostors
When I was a young lad, I remember watching a TV game show with my grandmother called To Tell the Truth.
Here is how the game worked.
Three celebrities would sit across from three contestants. The celebrities would have an opportunity to ask each of the contestants questions in order to figure out which one was telling the truth about who they really were because they all claimed to be the same person with the same life story.
At the start of the show, each contestant would introduce himself using the same name. But that name really belonged to only one of contestants. Two of them were impostors.
The challenge for the celebrities was to pick the true Martin Smith, Jim White, or Julie Thompson. The challenge for the contestants was to fool the celebrities into picking someone who wasn’t Martin Smith.
Once the celebrities made their decisions, the game show host would ask, “Will the real [Martin Smith] please stand up?”
If the contestants were able to fool the celebrities, they won the game and shared the prize money.
Just like there were impostors in To Tell the Truth, there are impostors when it comes…
