... meaning "God story"# or "good story." The word gospel, in every instance, is the translation of euangelion. The word eu meant, in classical Greek, "well" as opposed to kakos which meant "bad" or "evil." Aggello meant "to bear a message, bring tidings or news ... Egypt, to a land flowing with milk and honey. Euangelion rarely occurs outside of the New Testament. Nevertheless, in classical Greek it has basically three meanings. Barclay notes that (1) originally, it meant "the reward given to a messenger for bringing good tidings." It is so used ... in the Septuagint# in 2 Samuel 4:10. (2) ...

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... many twentieth century Christian thinkers are tem! pted toward some such notion as this. For it is quite clear, both in Scripture and tradition, that classical dualism is not t he Christian position. For example, the biblical viewer is not that the soul is the essence of the person and is only ... unities of body and soul. And the notion that the body is essentially evil and must be escaped from (an idea often associated with versions of classical dualism) eras condemned by virtually every orthodox Christian thinker who discussed death and res urrection in the first two hundred years a...

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