Talk:Gospel

Quote from Dr. Frank James

Dr. Frank James says in his “Greek Apologists and Early Theologians” lecture (track 8) in the RTS “History of Christianity I” course on iTunes U that you have to believe very little to be saved. I think there's a bit of hypocrisy going on here. We say you have to believe very little to be saved, but then when somebody says they're Mormon all of a sudden we get jumpy and conclude without very much objectivity that they just can't be saved. Why is this? We need to be more reasoned and objective if we are to make a case against false doctrine on all sides, not just Mormonism. — 21:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Video from John Piper

Here's a very helpful video from John Piper that also addresses this subject. — 20:42, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Occurrences of “gospel”, exhaustive

εὐαγγελίζω (v.), to evangelize, to preach the gospel

Mt 11:5; Lk 1:19; 2:10; 3:18; 4:18, 43; 7:22; 8:1; 9:6; 16:16; 20:1; Ac 5:42; 8:4, 12, 25, 35, 40; 10:36; 11:20; 13:32; 14:7, 15, 21; 15:35; 16:10; 17:18; Ro 1:15; 10:15; 15:20; 1Co 1:17; 9:16, 18; 15:1–2; 2Co 10:16; 11:7; Gal 1:8–9, 11, 16, 23; 4:13; Eph 2:17; 3:8; 1Th 3:6; Heb 4:2, 6; 1Pe 1:12, 25; 4:6; Rev 10:7; 14:6

εὐαγγέλιον (n.), gospel, good news

Mt 4:23; 9:35; 24:14; 26:13; Mk 1:1, 14–15; 8:35; 10:29; 13:10; 14:9; 16:15; Ac 15:7; 20:24; Ro 1:1, 9, 16; 2:16; 10:16; 11:28; 15:16, 19; 16:25; 1Co 4:15; 9:12, 14, 18, 23; 15:1; 2Co 2:12; 4:3–4; 8:18; 9:13; 10:14; 11:4, 7; Gal 1:6–7, 11; 2:2, 5, 7, 14; Eph 1:13; 3:6; 6:15, 19; Php 1:5, 7, 12, 16, 27; 2:22; 4:3, 15; Col 1:5, 23; 1Th 1:5; 2:2, 4, 8–9; 3:2; 2Th 1:8; 2:14; 1Ti 1:11; 2Ti 1:8, 10; 2:8; Phm 13; 1Pe 4:17; Rev 14:6

“He who does the commandments shall live by them”

Study cross-references from Ro 10:5 and Gal 3:12.

Jonathan’s site

Need to study works-related passages on Jonathan’s Salvation: How to Receive? document. (I’ve made a local mirror of Jonathan’s site in my home directory under sites.google.com.)