Who are What is the Gospel

[Deidr]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.



Responders- If it applies, please share where you agree first, then where you disagree and what you would like to add.



Thank You for this pleasant discussion in advance. May the hearers and doers of His word be blessed.

 

[Deidr]

What I'm about to say is not for the faint hearted.

Honestly with where you are how you really feel and what you really believe shouldn't mean people get to play God to judge you.

 

[Iconoclast]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

lk.24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

 

[Tenchi]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

1 John 5:10-13 (ESV)
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
John 14:6 (ESV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Acts 4:12 (ESV)
12 And there is salvation in no one else (Jesus), for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Romans 5:6-11 (ESV)
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.

One of the things I greatly dislike is the idea that the Gospel can, and should, be reduced down to a one-sentence statement. The Gospel is a Big Idea, it is relatively simple but not simplistic, requiring child-like - not childish - faith. There is much to the Gospel, and a proper treatment of it cannot be accomplished, I believe, in a hyper-distilled, meme-like account of it.

Too often, people come to faith in Christ thinking only to save themselves from hell. The Gospel they've heard has represented God as a threat, a terrible danger to avoid, not a loving Heavenly Father inviting them into fellowship with Himself through Jesus. And having obtained "fire insurance," these people want to get as far from the God of Hellfire and Brimstone as they can.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Gospel is many times made into a soppy, "your best life now" kind of thing, where Jesus is your buddy (maybe even your boyfriend) and life/self-improvement coach. He just wants to snuggle up with you, and tell you that you're the best and totally worth dying for. Of course, this is about as far from the truth of the Gospel as one can get, short of outright lying.

Anyway, both of these extremes are helped by giving short-shrift to a fully-orbed rendering of the Gospel (and by a "close the sale" mentality toward evangelism).

 

[Iconoclast]

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

All the scriptures...

 

[Fastfredy0]

“The Gospel” is an ambiguous term for it has a different meaning to each person. The word gospel means “good news”, but the contents of the good news varies from person to person.

 

[Deidr]

Gospel
The Kingdom is Available to anyone who puts their trust in Jesus.

 

[Fastfredy0]

“The Gospel” is an ambiguous term for it has a different meaning to each person. The word gospel means “good news”, but the contents of the good news varies from person to person.

The Gospel of the kingdom: The kingdom over which Christ will rule for 1,000 years. . Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 3:1-2; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 10:5-7)

The Gospel of the Grace of God: This is the good news that Jesus Christ, the rejected King, has died on the cross for the sins of the world, that he was raised from the dead for our justification, and that by Him all that believe are justified from all things.

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

"The gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24)

The gospel of “peace” (Ephesians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Acts 10:36)

The Everlasting Gospel: Revelation 14:6
That which Paul calls, “my Gospel” (Romans 2:16, 1 Corinthians 15:2-4): T

The Person of Christ: Mark 1:1 The beginning [of the facts] of the good news (the Gospel) of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Other gospels: Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
Salvific Gospel

 

[Tenchi]

“The Gospel” is an ambiguous term for it has a different meaning to each person. The word gospel means “good news”, but the contents of the good news varies from person to person.

The Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ is not an "ambiguous term." There may be various descriptions of this Good News - the Gospel of grace, the everlasting Gospel, etc. - but they all refer fundamentally to the same Gospel. Joe Blow may be described by his friends in a variety of ways: Some speak immediately of his work ethic, others remark on his prodigious beard, still others go on about his dry wit, and so on. Though each of Joe's friends might take a different tack in speaking of him, they are all referring to the same person.

 

[Charlie24]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.



Responders- If it applies, please share where you agree first, then where you disagree and what you would like to add.



Thank You for this pleasant discussion in advance. May the hearers and doers of His word be blessed.

In 2 Cor. 5:18-20, Paul uses a form of the word "reconciled" 3 times. The Greek word he uses is "katallassó."

It means "change or an exchange."

What Paul is telling us in these 3 verses is that God has exchanged His wrath on sinful man to love in that He gave His Son to pay our sin debt. He has made it possible for man to be "reconciled/changed" from unrighteousness to righteousness. Which was not possible but through the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. But man cannot take advantage of this "exchange" unless he accepts the Gospel of Christ.

This asks the question, what is the Gospel?

Paul makes it very clear exactly what the Gospel is in no uncertain terms. He calls it "my Gospel" as it is the only Gospel, and should also be ours who are born-again.

1 Cor. 15:1-4
"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, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For 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:"

This Gospel: Jesus Christ dying for our sins, buried, and resurrected to life, is the only Gospel, It is what makes it possible for man to be reconciled to God in righteousness. But man must choose Christ in order to take advantage of its benefits. This is where the preaching of this Gospel is so very important! Man cannot accept this Gospel if they don't hear it! But again, it is a choice that man must make when he hears it.

The Universalists/UR will say that these verses are proof of all men being saved in the end. That is not correct and is a gross misunderstanding of Scripture.

 

[BB1956]

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says that in the Christian Greek Scriptures (the “New Testament”), the Gospel “denotes the good tidings of the Kingdom of God and of salvation through Christ, to be received by faith, on the basis of His expiatory death.”
So I believe the good news, refers to the message about the Kingdom of God and of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.

 

[Highway54]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.



Responders- If it applies, please share where you agree first, then where you disagree and what you would like to add.



Thank You for this pleasant discussion in advance. May the hearers and doers of His word be blessed.

I can give you the theme of the Bible Deidr:
The vindication of Jehovah’s sovereignty and the fulfillment of His purpose for the earth by means of His Kingdom under Christ, the promised offspring

 

[Consecrated Life]

Too often, people come to faith in Christ thinking only to save themselves from hell. The Gospel they've heard has represented God as a threat, a terrible danger to avoid, not a loving Heavenly Father inviting them into fellowship with Himself through Jesus. And having obtained "fire insurance," these people want to get as far from the God of Hellfire and Brimstone as they can.

That sounds very bizarre , although you are not the first I have heard say they know of people coming to Christ this way
It has never made sense to me.
Why would someone who has no current faith in Christ , have faith that there is a hell that they need to be saved from ?
What in the world causes an unbeliever in Christ to be certain of hell ?
I believe it is infinitely more common for people to profess faith in Christ, and in the same breath profess a certainty that God would never send any person to hell .
My faith in Christ for instance had zero to do with hell, it was the by-product of instinctively feeling as a child that I do not exist by accident .
That I had to have been created on purpose.
And that if somebody created me on purpose then they must love me and be deeply concerned about every sorrow and adversity I was experiencing.
I have yet to meet anyone who has told me they were certain there was a hell, before becoming certain there was salvation from hell in Jesus .

 

[Consecrated Life]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.



Responders- If it applies, please share where you agree first, then where you disagree and what you would like to add.



Thank You for this pleasant discussion in advance. May the hearers and doers of His word be blessed.

There are many similar but for me this sums up the gospel especially in terms of what we are in it's absence.
That we are dead people without it .


Jhn 10:10
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

[Tenchi]

Why would someone who has no current faith in Christ , have faith that there is a hell that they need to be saved from ?

We all possess a God-given conscience that accuses us when we do wrong. Even when we manage to blunt it so severely that we feel nothing from it any longer, we still know, deep down, that we're evildoers and in need of forgiveness that we can't give to ourselves. I've heard out-an-out criminals who've abandoned all moral constraint acknowledge very seriously that they are hell-bent, rushing headlong toward eternal damnation. You'd think such hardened people would've thrown off all sense of judgment, or punishment, for their criminality, dismissing such ideas as childish nonsense; but, no, they retain an unshakeable awareness that they will one day answer to a Higher Power for their evil deeds.

In light of this, it is not surprising to me that, when people hear the Gospel, their first thought is often, not to embrace Christ, but to relieve themselves of their guilt and the judgment they know at their core that they deserve. Feeling the weight of their sin and the looming specter of divine punishment, they fix on the escape from the penalty of their sin that the Gospel offers without wanting to connect to the One who would be levy that penalty upon them.

I believe it is infinitely more common for people to profess faith in Christ, and in the same breath profess a certainty that God would never send any person to hell .

Certainly, some do this. But there is no need for a Savior in a circumstance where hell will never be occupied by sinners. The whole idea of the Atonement becomes absurd when God's love is made to dissolve His holiness and justice. In such a situation, why profess faith in Christ? Why should anyone do so if God will just embrace everyone no matter what they do? If there is no heaven to gain and hell to shun, stuff God, and live as you like, right? It all washes out the same, in the end.

My faith in Christ for instance had zero to do with hell, it was the by-product of instinctively feeling as a child that I do not exist by accident .
That I had to have been created on purpose.
And that if somebody created me on purpose then they must love me and be deeply concerned about every sorrow and adversity I was experiencing.
I have yet to meet anyone who has told me they were certain there was a hell, before becoming certain there was salvation from hell in Jesus .

Well, be careful not to extrapolate from your personal experience too far. Your story doesn't necessarily represent the majority.

I don't see how your being created necessitates a Creator who "loves you and is deeply concerned about every sorrow and adversity you were experiencing." It's not difficult at all to imagine a very different Creator; one, for example who is entirely disinterested in your existence, "winding up" the universe for obscure reasons of His own and then walking away from it to "wind down" as it will, careless of what becomes of His Creation. Or, God could have been an all-powerful demonic Being, capricious, and cruel, delighting in our misery and pain. Anyway, it's...interesting what your thinking concerning God has been, but I don't see that it is necessarily what is true for most others.

 

[Consecrated Life]

We all possess a God-given conscience that accuses us when we do wrong. Even when we manage to blunt it so severely that we feel nothing from it any longer, we still know, deep down, that we're evildoers and in need of forgiveness that we can't give to ourselves.

Hi Tenchi,
Evil is ramping up even as we speak .
I read a news story just yesterday of parents that let their disabled young son whom was totally dependent on them slowly starve to death, and then continued to enjoy the social security disability money he received for over a year.
A mother and father to their own flesh and blood.
With not an ounce of remorse or conscience.
They have both plead " not guilty " to murder and theft.
These stories are becoming more and more commonplace as Jesus said they would:

Mat 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

A world growing more and more evil, Just as Jesus said it would, is not a world growing more inclined to feel guilty or to believe in a place called hell.

 

[Iconoclast]

I can give you the theme of the Bible Deidr:
The vindication of Jehovah’s sovereignty and the fulfillment of His purpose for the earth by means of His Kingdom under Christ, the promised offspring

Jesus is Jehovah God

 

[Annagrace]

Hi, in love, can you please share from scriptural references and inference who or what you believe the full Gospel is?

Give a brief one sentence statement of your over all knowledge then share how it comes together for you.



Responders- If it applies, please share where you agree first, then where you disagree and what you would like to add.



Thank You for this pleasant discussion in advance. May the hearers and doers of His word be blessed.

 

[Highway54]

Jesus is Jehovah God

What hope do you have if God is a liar sir?

 

[Iconoclast]

What hope do you have if God is a liar sir?

I have a living hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, unlike you as God has declared truth plainly.As long as Isa 44:6 is in the bible it is you who are devoid of hope.
6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

6 Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: `I [am] the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the first and the last, The King, the Redeemer
rev1
because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;

10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

11 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;'

Jesus the God/Man is Jehovah God.
All will confess this truth on the final day, even those who are cast into second death.