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January 1996 - Volume 1, Number 1

© 1996, United Church of God, an International Association


FEATURE ARTICLE
The Real Gospel of Jesus Christ

by Bill Bradford

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hen Jesus Christ came to live on earth as a human, He brought with Him a message called "the gospel." What was this message Jesus preached?

Many have been taught that the "gospel," the "good news," is the story of Christ's life, birth, earthly activities, death and resurrection. Paul's words in 1Corinthians 15:1-4 are often used to support this definition of the gospel of Christ:

". . . I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand . . .- unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: 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 . . ."

Are There Other Gospels?

The Bible calls the gospel "the gospel of the Kingdom of God" (Mark 1:14) or simply "the gospel of the kingdom" (Matthew 4:23, 9:35, 24:14). But the biblical writers used other names for it as well. For instance, the Bible speaks of the "gospel of Christ" and the "gospel of God." Do these names refer to various messages or different gospels?

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