ANOTHER GOSPEL?

Paul begins his letter to the Galatians shocked that they have quickly turned from the Gospel he delivered to them in favor of “another gospel” – "which is really no gospel at all". 

Somehow a group of dissenters got to the Galatian Christians and convinced them all new Gentile believers needed to be circumcised in order to be accepted by God. A Gentile believer's faith - without circumcision - was simply not enough.

Biblical scholar N.T. Wright cautions readers of Galatians not to fall into "the temptation to project [their] own theological disputes into the letter", "with themselves heroically cast as 'Paul' and their own opponents crudely characterized as 'the Galatian intruders'". 

I feel the temptation. 

Since I have become convinced that Calvinism is a theologically misguided misreading of Scripture, I have to wonder if Paul would call it "another gospel". How consequential is the Calvinist mistake?

Some opponents of Calvinism take a soft stance and shrug off any theological differences as a fairly trivial disagreement between brothers and sisters in Christ.

On the other hand, I have heard some teachers and preachers who present a convincing case for labeling Calvinism an outright heresy for its unbiblical misrepresentation of the Gospel. 

My own opinion tends to lean toward seeing Calvinism's errors in these more serious terms.

That's not to say I believe individual Calvinists themselves are unsaved necessarily. (For one thing, I think it is nearly impossible for anyone to truly and consistently believe and live out Calvinist doctrine with all of its contradictions and redefinitions of terms. In practice Calvinists often do not believe all that differently from non-Calvinists.) 

Wright's concerns aside, Galatians does bring up the question: would Paul label Calvinism as “another gospel”?

It seems to me that there is a big enough difference between Calvinist doctrine and non-Calvinist doctrine on the matter of the Gospel that one or the other by necessity would have been called "another gospel which really is no gospel at all" by the Apostle Paul.

And Paul says that anyone teaching "another gospel" ought to be "accursed"! 

That's some harsh language. But accurately presenting the Gospel is serious business with eternal ramifications.