To the nonbelievers, articulate your understanding of the Gospel as presented in the scriptures.?

Answer 1

That is really hard to do in an abbreviated forum like this, but I will try. The basic story is about Jesus was God incarnate, that is in the flesh. He was born of a young woman named Mary, who was a virgin. There was very little told about him from his birth until he was 30 years old. He gathered a group of followers instructing them in the ways of God. His core group were 12 men, referred to as the apostles. One of them, Judas, sold Jesus out to the religious establishment, the Pharisees, who in turn collaborated with the Romans to have Jesus put to death. He suffered horribly, died, was entombed and rose from the dead on the third day. After his resurrection he appeared to the apostles and some of his other disciples, then ascended into Heaven on the 40th day.

Christian doctrine states that Jesus was the son of God and thus equal with God. His death was atonement for the sins of humanity. God required blood to be shed to accomplish this and only Jesus's blood was good enough.

Thats it in a nutshell. I think I caught it pretty well. That being said, I don't believe it.

Answer 2

Jesus showed up and started talking to the powerless. The powerless liked what Jesus had to say. The powerful listened to what Jesus had to say and they didn't like it. The powerful got nervous about what Jesus was saying because they were afraid Jesus would make them powerless and the powerless powerful. So, the powerful found a way to justify killing Jesus that the powerless would accept. So that's what they did. The powerful killed Jesus and the powerless accepted it.

Today it's the believers who are powerful and the nonbelievers who are powerless. Jesus has returned many many times and the result is always the same. The powerful kill and the powerless accept.

Answer 3

The non-believer cannot understand the things of God for they are spiritually discerned. The Bible can only be fully understood with the help of the Holy Spirit and the only way to receive the Holy Spirit is to receive Jesus. This is a bad question to ask non-believers because they will either give some sarcastic answer or start rambling about something they have no clue about. God bless.

Answer 4

LEt's see, I'll go with:

Gospel = "good news." What that good news is ... is that humans are seperated from god because of original sin. God is perfect and can't be in the presence of sin. So that humans and god can be together, a sacrfice was made in the form of Jesus Christ, gods only begotten son. If we accept that sacrifice, we are free from sin, and can be with god.

The "gospels" also refer to the 4 books, Matt, Mark, Luke and John that tell the story of the life of this sacrifice: Jesus Christ.

I don't buy it. I just know what it means to born-again people.

Answer 5

I think I have a few weeks, just let me read that and I'll get back to you. OH WAIT, I already read it, and found that it was nonsensical, fairytale gibberish. This question is ridiculous. I'm sure when you read most of these answers you'll laugh to yourself and say, "They don't know anything about the Book!" Sadly, you're the one who knows nothing, because you bow down to something that doesn't exist.

Answer 6

Summarize 66 books written by 40 authors over the span of 1600 years?

Gimme a sec...

"Believe in my God or else!"

Answer 7

Yes, by all means, condense one of those most complicated and contradictory religions out there into a five sentence post so I can rebut it in the hopes you will convert.

Answer 8

We need some modern day Martin Luther types

Answer 9

The bloody book is too long to do that in such a small space!

Answer 10

The words and teachings inspired by a nonexistent deity.