Question about CHRISTIANITY:::::: Why didn't Jesus write down the gospel himself?

Question

bible does not contain the gospel of Jesus. In his lifetime, he didn't even bother to write his gospel. . I think, most christians believe that Jesus knew about his time of crucifixion. (as he was God according to them) so he must have written some gospel. but we dont find any such gospel written by Jesus or dictated by Jesus.

Doesn't it imply that he was sent only for the jews and for particular time period. not for the whole mankind, otherwise, he would have left behind something for his followers to come,,, as this verse confirms.

Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Answer 1

The Bible contains the Gospel of Jesus Christ(well alot of it anyway). You can find His Gospel in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and Peter. Jesus taught orally and passed that tradition down to the Apostles, and the Apostles passed it down to their successors

Answer 2

If Jesus were to write a pure Gospel Message, it would be so pure and all encompassing that it would have been destroyed even by some of his followers ! See John 16:7-16

There Jesus states to his chosen apostles that He has much to tell them, but they cannot bear all of that now ! Jesus, on May 18, AD30, did as He promised and sent Himself back here in Spirit, freely poured out upon all flesh. He is here today guiding all Truth-lovers in Spirit ! We all thus have a pure and freshly updated Gospel ! We can read the Bible and other sacred texts and KNOW in Spirit what is True and what is not !

We have a Living Gospel Word of ALL TRUTH :
JESUS HERE with us ! Invite Him into your soul.

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Brother Dave, a Jesusonian Christian Truthist
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Answer 3

Jesus' work was oral teaching about God's new plan for reconciliation with humanity, along with healing, working miracles, suffering for our redemption, and rising from the dead.

The fact that Jesus did not write an autobiography should point to the fact that Christianity is a religion of the Word, not of a holy book, as in Judaism or Islam. The Word became flesh and lived among us, full of grace and truth.

Accordingly, Bible-only religion is not God's plan. He established a human organization, the Church, to write down his teachings. He understood that the Church would be necessary to help future Christians understand his teachings down through the ages.

It is true that Jesus' first mission was to the Jews, for they were prepared through thousands of years of seeking God and obeying him to receive the Word of God made flesh. But for the most part, "his own received him not."

When his mission was accomplished, Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned" (Mark 16:15).

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 4

Jesus did not write a gospel but he did found the Church.
Jesus is the Full Gospel, the Eternal Word of God.

Answer 5

I believe the we don't have a gospel of Jesus written by himself because the whole gospel was written about him. Jesus' words didn't have to be written by Him, they were written for Him and about Him.

I don't believe that Jesus was sent only for the Jews. I would be hesitant to take one line of scripture and apply it as an answer to a much larger question. Scripture is about context. One verse of scripture is not just one verse of scripture. It a part of a thought that is part of a chapter which is part of a book which was written to a specific audience during a specific time period in history. Looking at scripture in that context will expand the picture as well as your understanding of what might be trying to be communicated through the text.

Answer 6

Jesus is the Gospel. Also had He written something the probable consequence of doing so would be that the writing He did would be worshipped and idolized. That would be counterproductive to His mission.
For the same reason we do not have an exact description of what Jesus looked like.

Answer 7

God wrote only one thing... the ten commandments. God wrote them on earthen material.

When a question regarding the ten commandments came up, Jesus wrote only one thing as well, and He too wrote on earthen material. What is this saying? "Don't talk to me about the Law, I wrote it!"

So why didn't Jesus write anything Himself? Because we would put it in a shrine and worship it, we would never copy it, we would never translate it, we would never benefit from it.

The entire of Christ's mission deals with a spiritual legal system. Jesus said,

John 5:3 1
"If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true"

John 8:14
"Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true"

A testimony is a writ of witness. You cannot be your own witness. But even if Jesus COULD be His own witness, His witness would be truth incarnate. So the Father Himself was the witness.

John 5:39
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

"Doesn't it imply that he was sent only for the Jews and for particular time period. not for the whole mankind."

The implication is far from there. In fact, the opposite applies...

1 John 2:2
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the [Gentile].

Answer 8

Jesus knew that whatever he wrote would have been misinterpreted, mistranslated, and twisted out of context. So, He left it to His Church, the Catholic Church, to determine the best methods for passing down His Truth. One of the methods, obviously, was the Written Word, which the Catholic Church determined to be a tool for Instruction, but never as the sole source of all truth and faith. Sola Scriptura is a heresy.

Answer 9

there are actually some lost books that are claimed to be written by Jesus, letters between him and some roman governors, and a roman arms men, but it is in dispute on whether they are authentic or not. keep in mind, most of the bible while dictated by someone was actually written by others, which is very true mostly for the new testament, most of them told someone what to write., and when you read the old testament, if Jesus was who he claimed to be than it would be further proof as in the old test. God never wrote anything himself, he was always telling someone to write this or record that, I think there is even an area in the new Test, where Jesus tells his disciples to write down, but I'm not totally sure.

Answer 10

A judge will always believe witnesses before he will believe the person on trial. The Gospels were written by eye witnesses. If Jesus had written them, who would have believed him without the witnesses account of his actions?