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What is the Gospel?

The old English word gospel means good news, we've all heard that. It comes from Latin's explanation of its own word evangelium (bona adnuntiatio), borrowed from Greek euangelion (or euangelos) , which may be from Hebrew bisser which is bring (good) news - good is implied. But despite the etymology of the word there is a scriptural definition. Christ when He came to the American continent defined doctrine and defined gospel - His doctrine and His Gospel. The doctrine is the witnessed facts - Christ is the Son of God as witnessed by all members of the Godhead, God. God the Father is the literal Father of Christ and the Father of all mankind as witnessed by God. As our Father He loves us and gives us commandments with promise: repent and believe in Christ and we shall be saved or in other words inherit the kingdom of God. That is the doctrine of Jesus Christ upon which the gospel is founded . The gospel is more than just news, it is the doing of the witnessed doctrine. It is ref