1. THE BIBLE"S WORD: "GOSPEL"
... for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 Jn. 2:2). It is the good news that "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (Jn. 3:16). Elwell notes therefore that "the gospel is the joyous proclamation of God's redemptive activity in Christ Jesus on behalf ... that it was used by Homer to refer, not to the message, but to the reward given to the messenger.# Furthermore, in Attic Greek it always occurred in the plural and generally referred to sacrifices or...
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