Again you introduce a passage which isn't about the gospel. I'd suggest you read all the passages that use the word "gospel" to see what you find.See Revelation 20:4
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Again you introduce a passage which isn't about the gospel. I'd suggest you read all the passages that use the word "gospel" to see what you find.See Revelation 20:4
No, no, no, it is the "everlasting" gospel. There is only one gospel.
I assure you that the Gospel Jesus and his disciples preached before the Crucifixion and Resurrection were not about the Crucifixion and Resurrection as you seem to believe. The disciples didn't believe in the Resurrection until after it happened, so how could they have preached it before it happened?
You were asking about the thousand year reignRevelation 5:10 is not talking about the gospel. You're mixing passages together that don't belong together.
What the angel says is the gospel. What is so hard to understand about that? It's also what Jesus and his disciples preached . . . before the Crucifixion and Resurrection, the same gospel.
Again you introduce a passage which isn't about the gospel. I'd suggest you read all the passages that use the word "gospel" to see what you find.
I assure you that the Gospel Jesus and his disciples preached before the Crucifixion and Resurrection were not about the Crucifixion and Resurrection as you seem to believe. The disciples didn't believe in the Resurrection until after it happened, so how could they have preached it before it happened?
Is that good news?Revelation 14:7 says what gospel the angel was preaching: Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
The thrust of this gospel is the hour of judgment during the tribulation.
So now you have three gospels?I did not say Jesus and the twelve preached this gospel....this is the gospel revealed to Paul for this dispensation of grace.
I'm still wondering how the thousand year reign got introduced and mixed in with the discussion.You were asking about the thousand year reign
Everlasting means everlasting. You seem to have three gospels occurring at different times.It does not say that
I don't think the Bible promises Christians will go to heaven. Some may, but the Bible does not make that promise. Christians talk a lot about it; but it's not in the Bible.Please tell me how do we go to heaven.
Hello @Giuliano,I agree. And I think the "good news" part is that God is Good and will forgive us when turn to Him and away from our sins. He wants to forgive us. He wants the best for us. He knows what's best, and there is safety in trusting in His Love, Wisdom and Power.
Paul's warning to the Galatians was because the Jews were telling the new Christians they had to be circumcised and follow Jews food laws etc when Jesus had clarly said all those laws did not apply to Christians.I think that when Paul said in Galatians 1:7 that it was not another gospel meant that there were others and this was not one of them.....just my take.
I don't think the Bible promises Christians will go to heaven. Some may, but the Bible does not make that promise. Christians talk a lot about it; but it's not in the Bible.
You forget that Jesus has already resurrected many dead?I assure you that the Gospel Jesus and his disciples preached before the Crucifixion and Resurrection were not about the Crucifixion and Resurrection as you seem to believe. The disciples didn't believe in the Resurrection until after it happened, so how could they have preached it before it happened?
Great! Knowing this, we can resolve difficult passages of Scripture by using other passages of Scripture to interpret, knowing that it is the Holy Spirit who has inspired all of it from Genesis 1 to the end of Revelation.I certainly do think the Holy Spirit inspired them all. 2 Timothy 3:16 says so.
I don't think that these were different gospels in the sense that they did not depart from the need to repent of sin and receive Christ as Saviour and Lord; but it was the gospel adapted to different kinds of hearers. Peter preached the gospel to the Jews, using the Old Testament Scriptures to show Christ through them. Paul did the same when he preached Christ in the Jewish synagogues - we see this in his words: "according to the Scriptures". But when he preached the gospel to Gentiles who did not have the Jewish Scriptures, he used other methods - such as quoting from their own pagan poet at Athens, and having the Holy Spirit work signs and wonders among them. If we read Acts carefully, we will see that the signs and wonders occurred mainly among the Gentiles than in the Jewish synagogues - I believe the Jews had the Scriptures, and the Gentiles needed other things to convince them.Jesus taught and preached the gospel of the kingdom, the thousand year millennial kingdom on earth (Matthew 9:35). Jesus gave the twelve the gospel of the kingdom to preach (Luke 9:6 Mark 16:15).
Jesus gave Paul the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24).
Peter and Paul had separate ministries; Peter was sent to the circumcision (the Jews), and Paul was sent to the uncircumcision (the Gentiles). See Galatians 2:7-8
I think that when Paul said in Galatians 1:7 that it was not another gospel meant that there were others and this was not one of them.....just my take.
Also, in the tribulation there is an angel preaching another gospel in Revelation 14:6-7.
Were you taught that you need to repent of sins as you learned they were sins? I ask that since I've noticed several people don't mention repentance. And true repentance means being truly regretful, wishing you could back and undo what you did -- and then not repeating those past mistakes. Were you taught that the Holy Spirit can teach us how to mature by learning more about the ways we can sin, so we become more like Jesus?Hello @Giuliano,
I was saved by hearing the gospel of the grace of God preached. In which I heard that I had sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that the wages of sin is death, that I needed a Saviour. I heard that God had provided a Saviour for me, in the person of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who had taken upon Himself the penalty of sin, and died in my place, so that if I placed my trust in Him, my sins would be forgiven me, and I would have the gift of God's own righteousness imputed to me, and receive the gift of eternal life in Him. That was way back in 1960, when I was 12 years old,
* That is not the everlasting gospel, Giuliano.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
I can tell you what I believe.Ok then what is the gospel
Hello @Giuliano,Were you taught that you need to repent of sins as you learned they were sins? I ask that since I've noticed several people don't mention repentance. And true repentance means being truly regretful, wishing you could back and undo what you did -- and then not repeating those past mistakes. Were you taught that the Holy Spirit can teach us how to mature by learning more about the ways we can sin, so we become more like Jesus?
I also don't know what Paul and some others mean when they talk about "imputing" righteousness. Does this mean someone can continue to sin, but God will pretend he's righteous? Or does it mean God can make that person righteous when he didn't know how to become righteous by his own efforts?
How could the saints who died before Jesus lived ever be saved? How then can all Israel be saved?
I did not see a direct answer to my questions.Hello @Giuliano,
Though only 12 years old, I was very conscious of my sin, and overwhelmingly conscious of the debt I owed to the Lord Jesus Christ who had died in my place. The word of God, concerning His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, had entered my heart, and taken root, and it's fruits were being seen in sorrow for sin, and an overwhelming consciousness of the grace of God, Who had saved me, not by works of righteousness that I had done, but because of His great love, on the basis of the love poured forth by His Son on Calvary's cross.
* You refer to what Paul says about righteousness being imputed to us. Romans 3:20-25 explains this very well.
'Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight:
.. for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
.. being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
.... even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ
...... unto all and upon all them that believe:
for there is no difference:
.. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
.. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood,
.... to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
...... through the forbearance of God;
........ declare, I say, at this time His righteousness:
that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.'
Praise God!
His workmanship!
In Christ Jesus
Chris