Questions tagged [the-gospel]
The Gospel is a term describing the "Good News" of the arrival of the Kingdom of God which Jesus inaugurated at His first Coming. It has become synonymous with the story of Salvation from sin wrought by Jesus's death on the cross.
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What is the nature of the "judgment" that is part of Paul's gospel in Romans 2:16
Paul speaks of God's judgment plan in Romans 2:12-16. And in verse 16 he says, "in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." Hebrews 6:2 also ...
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How are the blue, purple, and scarlet threads of the tabernacle a revelation of the person and life of Jesus Christ?
What is the significance of the colors chosen and the order they are presented?
Ex 25:4 - And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' hair
See also Ex 26:1, 4, 31, 36, 27:16, 28:5, ...
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What does tying up the strongman mean in Matthew 12?
Mathew 12
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
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Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4 Do you live by every word of God? [closed]
Jesus lived a perfect "Chrisian" life, He lived it by literally living by every word of God which was the Old Testament, Law, Prophets, Writings (Psalms).
He did not ever quote from the New ...
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How is preaching the Gospel not pleasing to men, when Gospel means "good news"?
Gal.1:10: For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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In the Gospel Of Luke, is there punctuation in the oldest manuscripts?
In particular, the Greek Interlinear on bible hub reads:
“Neither for to die anymore are they able, like angels for they are ; and sons they are of God”
My questions is whether or not the comma or the ...
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What is the revelation in Isaiah 66:8? What is connected to?
What is the meaning of Isaiah 66:8 who Zion and who is the baby she brought forth. What’s the revelation behind the scripture?
Isa 66:8 - “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can
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What is the faith the Ephesians were saved through (Eph 2:8)
I was recently reading the context around Ephesians 2:8 and noticed that Paul strongly associates the Ephesian's salvation to the past resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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In Acts 10 why does Peter not know the gospel is not only for the Jewish people?
According to Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15 and Luke 24:24, the apostles were told to preach the gospel to all nations. Why did Peter need a vision to find this out again? Why did they avoid gentiles up to ...
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What are the scriptural implications of Jesus' usage, Sons of the Kingdom in Matthew 13:38?
Chapter 13 of Matthew contains several parables concerning the Kingdom of God. The illustration of The Weeds is one of them. In Jesus's interpretation of it, He stated that the good seed represent ...
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Why does The Holy Spirit snatch Philip away immediately after Philip shares The Gospel with the Ethiopian Bureaucrat Eunuch Government Official?
Acts 8:34-40
New American Standard Bible 1995
34 The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his ...
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If the gospel is described in Luke 18:31-34, what gospel were the disciples preaching earlier in Luke 9:6?
If there is only one gospel, which gospel was being preached in Luke 9:6 which preceded Luke 18:31-34.
Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going
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In Acts 13:34, what are the "sure mercies of David" and how do they relate to the Messiah?
[Act 13:34 NASB] (34) "[As for the fact] that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: 'I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY [and] SURE [blessings] OF DAVID.'
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What mountains is Isaiah 52:7 referring to?
I have read through Isaiah 52:7 time and again. I don’t seem to be coming to terms with how the feet of him that brings the good news are beautiful upon the mountains.
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What Gospel was preached before Jesus revealed the cross? [closed]
I wonder if this particular notion has a special place in theology.
To me the next two notions have quite a bit of impact to what i believe they preached, and we should preach.
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