God gave Moses the 10 commandements and the Torah, And Jesus the Gospel, where is that Gospel.
"Evangile selon Jesus Christ"
2006-06-16
08:23:56
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Sorry, but if you want us Muslims to believe in the Gospels, you need to bring the Original one sent from God to him.
2006-06-16
08:37:47 ·
update #1
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John who wrote the Bible were not of the 12 disciples of Jesus.
2006-06-16
08:40:06 ·
update #2
Gospel of Jesus christ is no more, christians translate the word Gospel for good news wherever it is used with Jesus, and they believe that some books written by the peoples who denied Jesus when he needed their support to be the Gospels of christ.
2006-06-16 09:18:39
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answered by My Love 2
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Orthodox Christianity holds that Jesus Christ is God taking on human flesh. While on earth Jesus had around three years of ministry before his death and ressurection.
As far as the Gospels go, all four of the gospels found in the New Testament are books traditionally held to be written either by disciples or travelling companions of early disciples (remember that most of hte twelve disciples were fishermen and in 1st century Palestine would probably have been illiterate). These four books (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) are written from four different perspectives, each recounting specific stories about and words of Jesus. They sequence events differently, and have variations between them concerning specific details and even on some of the main points of specific teachings. Luke for instance has a particular concern for the economically disadvantaged. In his version of the Beatitudes he says, "Blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew is not as concerned with those issues, and says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Some will argue that these differences prove the Bible worng. That is an illegitimate argument. If four different people are telling me something, adn they change details based on how they interpret events, I don't think the event did not happen, I think the event did, because so many people said it did, and the differences offer more proof, that it is not some story they made up and all agreed to tell, because as an actual event, it happened like things happen now, in real time where we all instantly process things differently.
Why were these four books chosen? Well the early church decided to canonize (put together in one official book) the gospels and letters that were going around and being read from in churches all over. They held several councils and some gospels were accepted, and some rejected. After this there were even more gospels that turned up, some written as many as two hundred years later than the four found in the Bible. The ones that are accepted in the Bible were chosen becuase of their general acceptance by a broad number of Churches. Famously, a bishop in Rome, where the "gospel of Peter" was commonly read and accepted, said to one of the councils, that because the book was not accepted by believers all over the world, then the church in Rome would not demand it to be canonized. This shows the complexity of the whole process.
Of hte Gospels we have, Mark is thought to be earliest of the three "synoptic gospels" with Mathew and Luke being wirtten later and probably building on the core material found in Mark.
John is written seperately, and is much more focused on presenting teachings than stories, miracles, and parables of Jesus.
These four gospels are thought to be written between 50-100 years after Jesus' death and ressurection.
A side comment on the previous comment about hte Kingdom of God. This is central to the message of Jesus. However it is a kingdom of a different kind. It is a kingdom that Jesus said "is among you." If you are interested in really digging into the "kingdom of God" that Jesus talks about, check out Brian McLaren's book "The Secret Message of Jesus"
2006-06-16 08:42:07
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answered by knot4sail16 2
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Dude, Jesus didn't write the gospels... he never even heard of them. Niether did the Apostles. The gospels were written several hundred years later by a bunch of different people who had heard about Jesus's life. The apostle's individual stories were recorded from their perspectives, but they were dead when they were written down. Even the Epistles were written by later leaders of the church. No one who actually knew Jesus wrote an "official" gospel.
2006-06-16 08:27:01
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answered by ciaobella_usa 3
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There isn't one. The gospels were written down by the apostles who followed Jesus around, based on their own experiences and points of view. If there is a text with that title, it's probably a gnostic knock-off.
2006-06-16 08:25:25
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answered by Beardog 7
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The gospels were written by followers of Jesus after his death. They were not gifts from God, but accounts of Jesus' life on earth.
2006-06-16 08:26:12
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answered by Mycroft 5
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Jesus Christ is the gospel, (gospel means good news)
2006-06-16 08:30:05
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answered by edy 1
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Jesus Christ is God
2006-06-16 08:25:54
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answered by Rhonda S 1
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Read all about it in those 4 books of the New Testament.
2006-06-16 08:26:23
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answered by Vagabond5879 7
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Jesus was prophecy fulfilled. Jesus preached from the Old Testament. The Old Testament prophesied of the Messiah. Read Isaiah. Jesus preached on Isaiah a lot. He also preached on Psalms.
2006-06-16 08:29:18
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answered by Anonymous
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"Gospel" means "word." It might mean that Jesus was given knowledge which he spread.
"Jesus spoke the gospel - he didn't read it off of anything - God spoke through him. Then the apostles wrote it down " Someone named ChristianGirl wrote this. Change your name.
2006-06-16 08:25:35
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answered by Justin Prime 3
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Jesus is the gospel, and He gave this gospel to the twelve that He chose to spread to the world.
2006-06-16 08:31:32
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answered by Hebeholdsu 2
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