Paul and the gospel: For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive. 1 Thessalonians 2:3

The First Epistle to the Thessalonians is one of the first letters written by the apostle Paul to the different Christian communities to whom he addressed his teachings. Paul most likely wrote this letter during his second missionary journey, around the year 50 AD.
Paul wrote this letter due to the insufficient Christian formation of this spiritual community of believers in Jesus. The Book of Acts relates that Paul, accompanied by his traveling companion Silas, had to leave the city at night due to persecution and the rejection of the gospel by an enraged crowd. But as time went by, the apostle of the Gentiles was notified that the Church he had founded had remained firm, and the new believers awaited news of his long journey. And knowing this, the apostle addressed a beautiful letter to them so that his physical absence would not be felt.
The apostle began his letter by congratulating the believers of Thessalonica for their firmness and constancy in the faith and setting them as an example for all the believers of the region of Macedonia, to which the city belonged.
And continuing his teachings, he explained to the believers of Thessalonica the true motivations for which he, as an apostle chosen by the Lord Jesus himself, preached the gospel. And so with these wise words, the apostle taught: "We had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God" 1 Thessalonians 2:2-4.
With this affirmation, Paul wanted to express that the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, the dominion or empire of God's perfections, was not a worldly philosophy, but the faithful testimony of a living God who grants his spiritual gifts, that is, his excellencies, to men. According to Paul's thinking, the message of the gospel is a message destined to transform a society given over to idolatry and ignorance, so this message could not be based on human motives such as error or passions but on the free grace of God, as he expressed in the epistle.

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