contains a automated login script that activates that password. But if that automated login script contains junk code, it interferes with the correct execution of the script. Orthodox preaching contains elements of that script that trigger the pre-installed login password of believers. So, to get the gospel wrong interferes with the hearing of the Gospel by the elect. It doesn’t keep anyone from salvation, it just gums up the process. (This analogy is useful to a point, but it limps when we try to put too much weight on it. God’s people will hear the gospel even if we communicate it incorrectly. They will hear it from someone else.)
Paul was trying to ungum the process that was in effect in Corinth as a result of those who had been teaching the foolishness of the world in the guise of the wisdom of God. “Do not be deceived” (1 Corinthians 6:6), he said, because he believed that they were actively in the process of being deceived. Deceived about what? About, among other things, who would inherit the kingdom of God. He had previously identified the fact that one of their leaders had been involved in gross immorality, shameful even by pagan standards. It wasn’t that this person had committed a sin so vile that it could not be forgiven. Not at all! God can forgive any sin, save one (Matthew 12:31-32).
It was not the sin that was the problem. Paul knew that all Christians are sinners. “And such were some of you.” he said. “But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11). The problem was not that some of the members of the Corinthian church were living in sin. Who isn’t? The problem was that some of the members of the Corinthian church had