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I Cor 15:1-6?

 

The gospel is the “good news” of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. (Romans 1:16) To believe the gospel is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation.

 

Those things are obviously implied. I quoted Paul as to the Gospel proper

 

Yet another and needless overly repetitive thread on this subject. The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Messiah. Many things can be called good news. The gospel is always understood to be narrow and specific. The reference to it in scripture is always related to the Messiah. Taking it beyond that is inappropriate.

 

Please post the exact verses

 

Great post!

I notice Protestants tend to reduce "the Gospel" to a series of one-liners. Most of the time their "Gospel" includes the Protestant doctrine of sola fide, which is insinuated in post #3 above.

While the death and resurrection is certainly part of the Gospel, it is not the Gospel message in its entirety. We know this because St. Paul would call other tenets of the faith "the Gospel." For example, he calls the last judgement of man by Christ "the Gospel" in Romans 2:16.

The Gospel is inseparable from the narrative in which it is presented, culminating in God fulfilling His promise to redeem man in the Person of Jesus Christ. I think what most people really prefer is a truncated Gospel, one removed from its historical narrative and whereby one can pick and choose one-liners, ridding themselves of the things they don't like, and keeping the things they do like.

 

There is no peace for the wicked says God.
Good news of the gospel is justified men can enter heaven to live with God.
No one went to heaven after they died until Christ ascended and led the captivity captive.

Christ came to give men eternal everlasting life, and before Christ came there was Abraham's bosom for the old testament saints who died in faith, but still they did not inherit the promise, versus the fiery torments of hell fire for the wicked dead who were faithless profane mankind, And Abraham's bosom would have been paradise for them who were there, but it was not Heaven or the the throne of God or eternal life being Sheol the place of the dead.

39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

v40 is speaking about the good news of the gospel, where you do receive the promise of eternal life in heaven with God. The OT saints were perfected along with us as the NT saints because of the gospel of Christ.

 

So no scripture for each of your points? Why not?

 

Mark 1:1 has this to say about the gospel:

"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

Mark is indicating that everything that is to follow in his "gospel" is in fact the gospel of Jesus Christ.

@agedman , let me ask you a very important question. What @mailmandan said in post #3 is not incorrect. Those things are the gospel. The question is whether anything else is considered the gospel. With the word "gospel" being used 70 times in the New Testament the question is a good one. So, here is my question. What part(s) of the gospel do you think a person needs to believe in order to become a Christian?

 

Amen!
The Gospel is about the Good News of the promise of God being fulfilled in the Son, as revealed in the scriptures, which brings hope of salvation to all mankind. Yes, the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes! Peace, joy, hope on Earth! Merry Christmas!! Of course, “some” soteriological persuasions it would seem more like “Bad News” because of their insistence that the scriptures reveal that God predetermined most of mankind not to have the ability to respond to that promise and the others (the lucky pre-selected few) would have to be forced into accepting it against their will as if nobody could understand this message or love this truth otherwise.

 

Agedman,
this is another needful thread and a very good topic which barely got explored before before it was shut down and opposed.
You're making many good points there are several portions of scripture that speak of the Gospel there are several portions that speak of the good news and each one needs to be developed and explored.

 

To boil it down to its simplest answer, what information do you need to be saved? That is the Gospel. No need to complicate it past that. One needs not know a single point of Calvinism or Arminianism to be saved.

 

Reynolds,
The thread asks....what is the gospel?
What do you communicate to someone who has not heard it?