It was originally God Spell and it had to do with magic and stuff. They shorted it in 295AD to Godspel and shortened it again to Gospel in 325AD. It originally contained the spells that Jesus did to turn water into wine and make the loaves and bread multiply, but due to the magician's code the Vatican took that stuff out.
2007-02-14 10:07:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sho nuff.
The companion Gospels were the Gnostic Gospels. These originally contained folk remedies or "Nostrums" which were used to "Physic" a person (a term which meant treat a person from which we get the term Physician). These "Nostrum Physic" Gospels were shortened into "Nostsic" and then "Nostic". This was changed in 327AD to Gnostic by a monk who never truly grasped the concept of alliteration. The name was never changed back because in 362 Pope Herpesian had them banned after they failed to cure him of a certain sexually transmitted disease.
2007-02-14 10:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Godspel was a musical dude. Boy is someone playing a bad joke or somethin? I wouldn't put to much stock in a show like Jeus Christ superstar. Just enjoy the music but don't think of it as historically accurate. I have it on authority Jesus didn't play air guitar.
2007-02-14 18:25:33 · answer #2 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sho-Nuff you know better than that.....of course it isn't valid history of the Bible Gospels. Jesus never did spells. He turned the water into wine and made loves and bread multiply, but He's did the miracles to show people who He is and because He loved them.
2007-02-14 18:19:01 · answer #3 · answered by Jan P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gospel in the original language means "good news"
The Apostles called it "the way" to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The good news is that it is available. Read Acts 2:38. Experience what they did in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost. today!!
2007-02-14 18:27:08 · answer #4 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps according to a "verily verily" gospel according to John.
It's more like Merlin movie, where the real magic is at the end.
Has nobody noticed the end of law vs grace is already written:
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-02-14 18:21:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Valid? Sure. Accurate? Nope.
2007-02-14 18:15:24 · answer #6 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sho-Nuff, "spell" is an Old English cognate of the German "spiel," and just means "story" or "account" or "news."
"God" here means "good," not "God." So the word "Gospel" is simply an Old English rendition of the Greek "euangelion" ("good news").
2007-02-14 18:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually a mistranslation of Gossiple
2007-02-14 18:14:52 · answer #8 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naw mii dude! it wasnt like that he was against sorcery and it would be contradictary if he was against Simon the Sorcer and the witch of Endor and he did that himself.
2007-02-14 18:12:34 · answer #9 · answered by Beautiful1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does this soun valid even to you?! Are you saying that the english language is 2000 years old (or, pherhaps, even older)!? IN THE SAME FORM IN WHICH IT EXISTS TODAY???
I don't get it...
I just don't get it....
2007-02-14 18:16:24 · answer #10 · answered by Uros I 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋