regeneration—doctrines that are anathema to most evangelical Protestants. St. Paul defines the gospel in Acts 13:16–41 as the resurrection of Jesus (verses 32–33), and in 1 Corinthians 15:1–8 as His death, burial, and resurrection. When Paul converted, straightaway he also got baptized, in order to have “his sins washed away” (Acts 22:12–16). Biblical factors such as these caused people like Martin Luther and John Wesley and their denominations (Lutheranism and Methodism), and other communions such