The True Gospel, What is it?

[African People of Love]

Can you tell us what the true Gospel is in one sentence? If so let us hear what the Spirit has to say to the churches.....

[Evangelist Altha Fugett]

and ascended

[Archbishop Trevor 'Elihu' Greene]

and sits at the right hand of the FATHER making intersession for us.

[African People of Love]

The apostles never ceased to be shocked by Jesus' willingness to talk with women, women of questionable character, even immoral women. It was very difficult for Jesus to teach his apostles that women, even so-called immoral women, have souls which can choose God as their Father, thereby becoming daughters of God and candidates for life everlasting. Even nineteen centuries later many show the same unwillingness to grasp the Master's teachings. Even the Christian religion has been persistently built up around the fact of the death of Christ instead of around the truth of his life. The world should be more concerned with his happy and God-revealing life than with his tragic and sorrowful death.


MEANING OF THE DEATH ON THE CROSS
Although Jesus did not die this death on the cross to atone for the racial guilt of mortal man nor to provide some sort of effective approach to an otherwise offended and unforgiving God; even though the Son of Man did not offer himself as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of God and to open the way for sinful man to obtain salvation; notwithstanding that these ideas of atonement and propitiation are erroneous, nonetheless, there are significances attached to this death of Jesus on the cross which should not be overlooked. It is a fact that this world has become known as the "World of the Cross."
Jesus desired to live a full mortal life in the flesh on this world. Death is, ordinarily, a part of life. Death is the last act in the mortal drama. In your well-meant efforts to escape the superstitious errors of the false interpretation of the meaning of the death on the cross, you should be careful not to make the great mistake of failing to perceive the true significance and the genuine import of the Master's death.
Mortal man was never the property of the arch deceivers. Jesus did not die to ransom man from the clutch of the apostate rulers and fallen princes of the spheres. The Father in heaven never conceived of such crass injustice as damning a mortal soul because of the evildoing of his ancestors. Neither was the Master's death on the cross a sacrifice which consisted in an effort to pay God a debt which the race of mankind had come to owe him.
Before Jesus lived on earth, you might possibly have been justified in believing in such a God, but not since the Master lived and died among your fellow mortals. Moses taught the dignity and justice of a Creator God; but Jesus portrayed the love and mercy of a heavenly Father.
The animal nature--the tendency toward evildoing--may be hereditary, but sin is not transmitted from parent to child. Sin is the act of conscious and deliberate rebellion against the Father's will and the Sons' laws by an individual will creature.
Jesus lived and died for a whole universe, not just for the races of this one world. While the mortals of the realms had salvation even before Jesus lived and died on this world, it is nevertheless a fact that his bestowal on this world greatly illuminated the way of salvation; his death did much to make forever plain the certainty of mortal survival after death in the flesh.
Though it is hardly proper to speak of Jesus as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a redeemer, it is wholly correct to refer to him as a savior. He forever made the way of salvation (survival) more clear and certain; he did better and more surely show the way of salvation.
When once you grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father, the only concept which Jesus ever taught, you must forthwith, in all consistency, utterly abandon all those primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately punished, unless some being almost equal to himself should volunteer to suffer for them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole idea of ransom and atonement is incompatible with the concept of God as it was taught and exemplified by Jesus of Nazareth. The infinite love of God is not secondary to anything in the divine nature.
All this concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Jesus taught that service to one's fellows is the highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers. Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God. The believer's chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one's fellows even as Jesus loved and served mortal men.
Neither do genuine believers trouble themselves so much about the future punishment of sin. The real believer is only concerned about present separation from God. True, wise fathers may chasten their sons, but they do all this in love and for corrective purposes. They do not punish in anger, neither do they chastise in retribution.
Even if God were the stern and legal monarch of a universe in which justice ruled supreme, he certainly would not be satisfied with the childish scheme of substituting an innocent sufferer for a guilty offender.
The great thing about the death of Jesus, as it is related to the enrichment of human experience and the enlargement of the way of salvation, is not the fact of his death but rather the superb manner and the matchless spirit in which he met death.
This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic. Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into individual human experience: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be "forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors."

[Scott R. Newman]

Why do we always seem bring up only half of the Gospel, just the Gospel that speaks of the first half and leaving out the second?

[Evangelist Altha Fugett]

The Gospel is "good news" without the belief that Jesus lived, died, rose, ascended and sits at the right hand of the FATHER making intersession for us, the second? half is of no avail

[Evangelist Altha Fugett]

I will venture to say that he is speaking of "judgement" which is NOT the gospel, but the consequence of sin.

[Scott R. Newman]

Nope wrong....LOL See what happens when one assumes...:) My time is limited and will expound over the weekend. We have the first part of the Gospel correct in speaking of salvation, but what is the other half of the Good News of Jesus the Christ? Think Abraham and the promise God made to Abraham......

[Evelyn Blacksher]

looking forward to you expounding over the weekend. will share what has been released in my heart; "promises made will be promises kept"

more than conquering in HIS name

[Evangelist Altha Fugett]

ROFL, I did say venture not assume, be blessed!, looking forward to see your reply as well

[Minister QGAgnew]

Rev.22:12
Behold,i come quickly and my reward is with me,to give every man according to his work!

[newview]

Here is what the gospel is in a nut shell - as explained by the Apostle Paul (he took a little more than one sentence though) :

Corinthians 15: 1- 7
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,

*how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
*And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
*After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
*After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

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[Scott R. Newman]

new,that's the first part of the Gospel of Christ, what is the second part? That is the top line but the bottom line of the Gospel is what most neglect. What is the bottom line Gospel truth?