Is the gospel that saves Arminian or Calvinistic?

There are a few Calvinists out there who having a zeal without knowledge insist that
unless a man understands and believes the gospel in the Calvinist way, why he just can’t
be saved. Is this true?

What is the True ‘Gospel’? Here is the Apostles’ definition of it –

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which
also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to
the scriptures! [1Cor15:1-4]

This according to the Apostle is the ‘Gospel’! Anyone who tries to read ‘Calvinism’ or
‘Arminianism’ in the above greatly errs and tries to read into it something that is not
there!
Again, “Sirs what must I do to be saved”? And they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house”! [Act 16;30,31]

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith,
which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. [Rom
10:8-13].

In fact you will not find even a single instance where some Evangelist preached ‘The
Five Points of Calvinism’ or ‘Arminianism’ while addressing the lost in the whole of the
New Testament! (Search and see).

Now God saved me in 1986 while I was under an Arminian tent. It was not until many
years later that God opened my eyes to Reformed Truths. But whenever I share my
testimony, there are times I run into some pharisaical Calvinist who gets mad and says,
“no way, you just couldn’t have been saved while you were an Arminian!”

But as sure as Jehovah is on the Throne I know I was! I was saved not because I was an
Arminian but in spite of it! You see, I was not some moral brother who was saved from
his churchianity and self-righteousness. I was saved straight from under Lucifer’s Altar! I
know the enmity that arose between me and the demons I had dabbled with! I
immediately experienced the ‘Enmity’ prophesied in Genesis 3:15, not to mention my
deliverance from my Heroin Addiction, Alcoholism, and Heavy Metal music! But above
all this, there arose an unexplainable and unquenchable love for Jesus and Christians
whom I had hated with my guts before my conversion! [See 1Jn 3:14].

So is Calvinism ‘the Gospel’? Calvinism ‘explains’ and ‘defines’ the gospel as the truth
is in Jesus! And I would question the salvation of any man who does not by and by
understand, comprehend and receive this Truth and contend for it; no matter how well
read he may be in the scriptures! That is what it means to ‘grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. [2Pet 3:18]. And ‘the path of the just is
as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day [Prov 4:18]. For the
Spirit leadeth all the Elect into this Truth of the Sovereignty of God and the utter
helplessness of man to save himself or keep himself saved! “And when He, the Spirit of
truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.” To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them, and they do not
have the ‘root of the matter’! God’s Elect will sooner or later cry out with Jonah,
“Salvation is of the Lord!” [Jonah 2:9].

So without laboring the point, can a man be saved in an Arminian tent? It is God who
saves, and He does so by regenerating and converting His elect wherever He chooses by
the power of the Holy Spirit and the instrumentality of His Word! And that Word is
not the ‘Five point of Calvinism’ or ‘Arminianism’ but the simple truth that Jesus Christ
died for sinners, was buried and rose again! If a man has been taught of the Father (as all
God’s Elect are [Jn 6:45]) this truth will mean something to him and he will believe it in
his heart confess it with his mouth and be saved! Period! Those who deny this greatly err
not knowing the Scriptures neither the power of God! Sheep may sit under false teaching
for some time, but before long they will go out searching for the Shepherd’s voice, for
they know not the voice of strangers! Anyone who claims to be the Lord’s sheep and lives
and dies an Arminian even after being exposed to the truths of Sovereign Grace never
was one!

When I speak of the Lord’s sheep still trapped in Arminian Churches, I have in mind
Christ’s Lambs and babes in Christ. In no way do I mean the ‘theologians’, ‘reverends’,
deacons or ‘Elders’ who have studied and rejected the writings of the ‘Puritans’ and
‘Reformers’. Believe me, these have their reward.

The Lord has made the gates of Heaven as narrow as you can make it, even a ‘needles
eye’. Let us not labour to make it any narrower and turn the Reformed Faith into a Cult,
saying, “unless you are saved under Reformed preaching, you just cannot be saved.”

As a final thought consider this, if the Lord does not have his sheep in Arminian and
other false Churches why would He take the pains to say, “Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” [Rev18:4].