1) Most of the time when someone says believe the Gospel, what do they mean in reality?
2) And what does the Bible define as the Gospel?
We know that the Bible says
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
In Romans 10, 17
and a Verse before that, it says this
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
Romans 10, 16
So in this context the Gospel is "the word of Christ" (please correct me if I am wrong)
and here believing and obeying cannot be separated from each other, he who believes also obeys, believing without obedience would be a contradiction here
The Gospel are the words of Christ, one hears them and can decide if they want to believe or not, but if they believe, this means they also obey all words of Christ, there is no way around this.
Is it correct when I say all 4 Gospels are the word of Christ, or just the words of Christ in them?
And if someone defines Gospel just the death of Christ on the cross, adding the words he died for your sins, and if you believe he died on the cross for you and rose on the 3rd day, you will be saved... This would not be the complete Gospel, it is just a chapter of it.. Can we say this is not the biblical definition of the Gospel in that case?
The answer to this question and definition would solve many problems
If we all agree on the correct definition of the Gospel
And the definition what faith in the Gospel means
There could not be even 2 seperate groups, cause there is only 1 Christ, who said the same words for every one, who wants to follow and obey Him.
There would be only 1 way to walk, that way Christ gave us and walked
The words He gave would be our commandments to do and live
And the way He walked is the way we should walk too
With the same goal in mind
Of course there are also commandments of the Apostles for us, but we all build the house with Christ as cornerstone and from here we go to the Apostles and obey all the words they commanded as well, still we could not even have 2 groups walking different ways.
Cause now you can not have 2 different Christs, the same Christ gives all the followers the same commandments and even walks the way, so they can look at Him and walk.
The Apostles also build their words on Christ, but if we start with Paul for example and build our house on Saved by Grace through Faith, and from here we go back to the words of Christ, we have to say Christ could not mean, what He says here.. the chaos starts here.. the house was build on a false cornerstone..
and 1000 groups can be formed claiming to have "faith" in Christ, when they define this as "believing He died for me, so I can be saved" this opens a door for unlimited ways to walk from here...
I want to end with couple Bible verses
John 8
30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 6
But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
1 John 2
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
2 Thessalonians 1
5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— 6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
