The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Mark 1:1)
The four gospels located at the first position of the New Testament are all about the story of Jesus. Partially there are Jesus’ birth story and an episode in his twelve years old but as a whole his public life from his leaving home, goes through Galilee, Samaria and Jerusalem where he is captured and executed on the cross is the core of these gospels. The period was one year at short and two year at long. Compare to the founders of other religion or saints not only his whole life is short but his activity period also too short. It is a shorter period of 3 years collage life in India. If Jesus lived a little longer in this world, what changes would be happened to the history of Christianity, Europe and world? If he lived in this world as long as his life was given from the heaven like the Buddha what had happened to him and this world? It was a futile imagination. However, Jesus’ story that had happened in very short period is content of the gospels.
I found the word noun ‘Gospel’(evangelion) and its verve ‘to evangelize(evangelizo)’ two times in Matthew, six times Mark and four times Luke. Mark’s gospel the shortest among the four used it mostly and the longest Matthew’s gospel rarely. John’s gospel that had written in latest strangely didn’t use it even in single. As we confirm from the conception of Logos or light and darkness, because he had received the influence of Greek philosophy greatly, did the author of John think a word ‘gospel’ in rustic? In Apostle Paul’s epistle we can find out this word many times. However, not only the fact Mark’s gospel used the word ‘gospel’ mostly (1:1, 14,15, 8:35, 10:29, 13:10) but also the author of Mark brought ‘gospel’ abruptly signifies its’ seriousness. Why did Mark plainly prescribe the storybook about Jesus as ‘gospel’, good news?
It seems Christian faith begins and ends with the fact that Jesus Christ is rightly gospel. If someone is not pleased with this fact then he has to choose other religion or live without religion. Either this or that life is the same, if we see it superficially it doesn’t have much differences between the person who accept Mark’s statement and the person not. Each people live their own given lifetime and go. I don’t have any desire at all to say something this and that about those people. They can live more elegant and nobler life than me. What life they maintain I don’t care and I accept Jesus Christ as the gospel of my life. I don’t have much room to take care of others for it is too much burden for me not only to understand the relationship between Jesus Christ and gospel but also the trial to enter into abyss of such spiritual world. Other things in this world are just references for me to live in this world. Those who have experiences to write a thesis may now an importance of references and footnotes. Despite this a thing is very clear that these are not the theme of a thesis.
However, the statement that Jesus Christ is gospel is not simple one. Firstly we have to understand the difference of the term in Jesus and Christ and look into how it has identified. And we have to look into a personality as Jesus, his work, his teaching and finally the incident that had happened to him as whole step by step. Literally too we have to think the difference between Jesus Christ’s gospel and gospel ‘about Jesus Christ. Jesus is the subject in the former and the object in the latter. Such matters will be gradually clarified and we don’t need to enter in too death today.
Do we know who Jesus is today or do we give any effort to know him? Do we know what is the world lied before us or even try to know it? Do we know my wife, my husband, my children, my mother, my father or even try to know them? Everything is placed likely dead as a still-life painting. Merely we are appreciated with these in order to cheer up our mood like housewives who laugh frolicsomely while changing their cloth. (Ladies, don’t feel bad.) We may be nothing but the people who enjoy religious game by changing Jesus’ position here and there according to our mood. Does really the word Jesus Christ is gospel live for us?
The four gospels located at the first position of the New Testament are all about the story of Jesus. Partially there are Jesus’ birth story and an episode in his twelve years old but as a whole his public life from his leaving home, goes through Galilee, Samaria and Jerusalem where he is captured and executed on the cross is the core of these gospels. The period was one year at short and two year at long. Compare to the founders of other religion or saints not only his whole life is short but his activity period also too short. It is a shorter period of 3 years collage life in India. If Jesus lived a little longer in this world, what changes would be happened to the history of Christianity, Europe and world? If he lived in this world as long as his life was given from the heaven like the Buddha what had happened to him and this world? It was a futile imagination. However, Jesus’ story that had happened in very short period is content of the gospels.
I found the word noun ‘Gospel’(evangelion) and its verve ‘to evangelize(evangelizo)’ two times in Matthew, six times Mark and four times Luke. Mark’s gospel the shortest among the four used it mostly and the longest Matthew’s gospel rarely. John’s gospel that had written in latest strangely didn’t use it even in single. As we confirm from the conception of Logos or light and darkness, because he had received the influence of Greek philosophy greatly, did the author of John think a word ‘gospel’ in rustic? In Apostle Paul’s epistle we can find out this word many times. However, not only the fact Mark’s gospel used the word ‘gospel’ mostly (1:1, 14,15, 8:35, 10:29, 13:10) but also the author of Mark brought ‘gospel’ abruptly signifies its’ seriousness. Why did Mark plainly prescribe the storybook about Jesus as ‘gospel’, good news?
It seems Christian faith begins and ends with the fact that Jesus Christ is rightly gospel. If someone is not pleased with this fact then he has to choose other religion or live without religion. Either this or that life is the same, if we see it superficially it doesn’t have much differences between the person who accept Mark’s statement and the person not. Each people live their own given lifetime and go. I don’t have any desire at all to say something this and that about those people. They can live more elegant and nobler life than me. What life they maintain I don’t care and I accept Jesus Christ as the gospel of my life. I don’t have much room to take care of others for it is too much burden for me not only to understand the relationship between Jesus Christ and gospel but also the trial to enter into abyss of such spiritual world. Other things in this world are just references for me to live in this world. Those who have experiences to write a thesis may now an importance of references and footnotes. Despite this a thing is very clear that these are not the theme of a thesis.
However, the statement that Jesus Christ is gospel is not simple one. Firstly we have to understand the difference of the term in Jesus and Christ and look into how it has identified. And we have to look into a personality as Jesus, his work, his teaching and finally the incident that had happened to him as whole step by step. Literally too we have to think the difference between Jesus Christ’s gospel and gospel ‘about Jesus Christ. Jesus is the subject in the former and the object in the latter. Such matters will be gradually clarified and we don’t need to enter in too death today.
Do we know who Jesus is today or do we give any effort to know him? Do we know what is the world lied before us or even try to know it? Do we know my wife, my husband, my children, my mother, my father or even try to know them? Everything is placed likely dead as a still-life painting. Merely we are appreciated with these in order to cheer up our mood like housewives who laugh frolicsomely while changing their cloth. (Ladies, don’t feel bad.) We may be nothing but the people who enjoy religious game by changing Jesus’ position here and there according to our mood. Does really the word Jesus Christ is gospel live for us?
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