"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" (NIV)
Here Paul gives an excellent description of Christ. He does not say it point blank, but the message is there: "Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). People change, but the gospel is always constant, never changing. So if anyone teaches anything other than the original gospel, that person is a liar, a deceiver. This statement is so important that Paul feels the need to reemphasize that if anyone, even one of the apostles, tries to teach a different gospel, he is not to be trusted.
It's interesting to me how Paul says verse 9a: "As we have already said, so now I say again—" It sounds to me like "all the brothers with [Paul]" (v.2) warned the Galatians against accepting false gospels the first time they visited them, and now Paul is repeating the warning, reaffirming his belief that the gospel is always the same, no matter what anyone says.
And it's amazing that Paul mentions angels in this passage. Any angel preaching a false gospel is not from God, but from Satan. "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. their end will be what their actions deserve" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). This is clearly a warning against Mormonism, among other religions... nearly 2000 years before they emerged! This warning must be from God Himself, as we can see now, because no mere human could have predicted such a thing.
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