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Originally Posted by Praxeas
I have to leave for a while, but can you define what "the gospel" means? In the strictest most literal sense I would define that to mean simply What Jesus did for us etc etc...however even when that was done in Acts the question was asked "what must I do to be saved"...the answer was believe on Jesus...looking at all the accounts we know that includes repentance too. So in a looser sense I would say the gospel includes not only preaching Jesus but telling them what they need to do as a result of the conviction of their sins and hearing about what Jesus did for us so that we could be forgiven and born again. Where you go from there though is where we get the differences
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Yes, the Gospel of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. The resurrection is good news because it proves that the issue of sin has been dealt with in the eyes of God. If God would have still imputed the sins of the world to Christ he would not have risen from the dead. The fact of the resurrection shows that sin has been forgiven. Those in Christ are to be resurrected with Christ because we have been crucified with him, i.e., our sins have been taken to the cross with him. We are to place our faith in his resurrection and reckon ourselves alive unto God as well. We are to place our faith in the sin remitting work of Christ which resulted in his reception of the promise of eternal life and understand this is our ultimate future as well. Our hope rests in the truth of the Gospel.
We are to "repent and believe the Gospel." This is another way of saying we are to have repentance and faith. Repentance is inseparable from faith. The heart returning to faith in God (the heart turning away from dead works and turning toward God in faith) was to return to God via faith in Christ.
The correct response to hearing the good news of the Gospel is to return to God (repent) in faith. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the avenue by which the repentant heart is to return to God.
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