Bible is all about God and the message he wanted to give us humans. Bible is the story of Jesus, his life, his actions, and his sacrifice for the salvation of mankind.
The stories and anecdotes recounted in Bible were not written when they occurred. They were handed down to many generations before they were finally written. The fact that these stories were written by different authors make their versions different, but there is also a remarkable unity in this difference.
Bible makes mention of the word Gospel a number of times. The literal meaning of the word in Greek is good news. Thus, it is the message of the god to the mankind. Active Oldest Votes. Now, moving on to the term "Gospel.
In this sense, the Gospels plural are part of the Bible. In this sense, the Gospel singular is either: specifically, the message that Jesus came to redeem man. Improve this answer. KorvinStarmast 6, 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges.
Flimzy Flimzy 22k 19 19 gold badges 98 98 silver badges bronze badges. David Stratton David Stratton What I understood if I omit this sentence is that a gospel is the story of the life of Christ, and the Bible is everything that we understand from it or so, isn't that right?
There's a distinction, at least from an Evangelical understanding between a gospel one of the four and the Gospel the good news message. It's the same root English word with two distinct meanings.
Christianity has another with the word "spirit" in which a spirit can mean "a living thing" or "an attitude", etc, but The Spirit always refers to the Holy Spirit - one of the three aspects of God in the Trinity.
A gospel is the telling of Christ's life. The Gospel is the message. Can you provide a reference for your statement that Luke "knew [Jesus] personally? See Luke But maybe you mean "knew" in a "spiritual" sense. I really don't want to go off an a side issue if it's not something that is relevant to the question, which is about the distinction of the Bible and the Gospel, not the authorship of one of the gospels. Show 1 more comment.
Anne Anne Null 7 7 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Saying the whole thing is the Gospel is pretty far outside of the traditional view. Welcome to the site. We are glad you decided to participate. Please see What this site is about and How this site is different to help you learn how the site works. Also see the help center and take the tour to learn the site functions.
I hope to see you post again soon. This self disclosure is progressive becoming clearer with time , as God revealed himself intermittently for more than years to Israel historical empirically verifiable , as the recipient of the revelation are real people instead of mythological characters because the Bible's God acts in history through his mighty works of deliverance like the exodus from Egypt instead of aloof like Plato's god and speaks through His prophets showing God's intense love for the rebellious humans and provides a way for them to come back to their Creator: John They are like the seeds that fell on the good soil in the parable of the sower, Luke It is to people like them that Jesus quoted Isa in Luke above.
He has redeemed Jerusalem. All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God. The 4 human authors of the 4 gospels are: Matthew one of the 12 apostles , writing between A.
Community Bot 1. GratefulDisciple GratefulDisciple The community here prefers longer answers. Please see Guidelines for writing effective answers and What is a well-sourced, dispassionate answer? After that, please edit this post to make it better. The two-source hypothesis came out around the 19th centruy. Due to Matthew and Luke borrowing passages from Mark these three gospels are known as the synoptic gospels. Synoptic means having the same view, and if you read the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke you will understand why they are considered the synoptic gospels.
John was the only author who actually knew Jesus and his gospel takes a different view than the first three. John's gospel follows a very different time line and does not share much content with the other gospels in general. The gospel of John uses different verbiage, and style of writing and was actually rejected by the orthodox Christians for a long time. Today, it is widely accepted and is the favorite for most conservative Christians.
Below you will find a comparison table that helps to better visualize the differences and similarities between the four gospels.
Promised Messiah of Jewish people, greatest prophet, teacher of the "new law" calling people to be faithful of the Old Testament covenant with God. Merciful, Compassionate, Prayerful teacher with special concern for women, the poor, and non-Jews Gentiles. This table is a great way to see the similarities between the three synoptic gospel authors, as well as see how they differ from each other and the apostle John. Learning about the authors can greatly help us understand how and why they wrote their gospels the way they did.
The gospel of John was the only gospel written by a follower of Jesus. The other three writers were followers of Jesus's apostles, and likely never met Jesus for themselves. John's message was a personal account of his following closely with Jesus.
Therefore, John's message is for all ethnic groups and his whole purpose for writing is to bring evidence to prove that Jesus is Christ and truly the Son of God. Throughout John's work one will find that John's focus is on emphasizing the divine status of Jesus. This can be seen through Jesus' statements of "I am" that will be found in John's gospel.
From the very first verse to the end of the book John's message of divinity is clear. In John he lays the foundation for the entire gospel, and one will find that he continues to show how Jesus is the word made flesh; " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". In John the message of his entire book is layed out in black in white; "But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name".
Matthew was writing to and for the Jews and focuses his work around the idea that Jesus is the King of the Jews; "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him. There were two main reasons Matthew wrote his book. The gospel of Matthew was written as a message of encouragement and strength for Jewish Christians.
Despite Jesus being killed by Jews, Matthew's first message is to strengthen Jewish Christian's faith in the knowledge that Jesus was the Messiah. To prove that Jesus was the promised Messiah of the Old Testament, Matthew quotes the Old Testament more than any other synoptic writer. The second reason he writes his book is to show that Jesus was truly the Messiah. He shows this by recording Jesus' geneology and quoting the old testament.
This verse fulfills the prophecy from 2 Samuel "When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. Mark focuses on the idea that Jesus was a servant.
This can be seen by his lack of geneology of Jesus throughout his gospel. Mark's work is meant to encourage Christians throughout Rome, despite being persecuted for their faith. He goes on to say that persecution is the price that Christian's must pay for following Jesus. In the book of Mark, Jesus says exactly that "Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Luke was known to be an accurate historian, and as a result he carefully researched everything.
Luke approaches his work by making Jesus the Son of man. He shows how Jesus was a real person and how He showed a genuine interest in people from all walks of life. Luke spends ample time focusing on Jesus' birth and childhood dedicating the first two chapters to this part of Jesus' life.
He also focuses on the human traits Jesus possessed. Many of Luke's other versus portray a Jesus who was able to feel human emotions as well as express other human traits. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry" Luke Jesus is portrayed to have feelings such as pain and sorrow. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
Despite each gospel being written during different time periods and in completely different historical situations and locations, they have similar story lines and ideas of Jesus' life. Jesus' character and history is portrayed different in these works, yet they do not contradict each other. The different works compliment each other and provide a harmonious detailed description of Jesus' life. Answer: If you are referring to which three are the synoptic gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the three that have almost identical information down to the order of the stories and the words they use.
John is not a part of the synoptic gospels as his gospel varies not only in wordage, but also story line, and contains material that you will not find anywhere else within the synoptic gospels.
Jesus died somewhere between AD. Question: What are the similarities and differences between the four Resurrection stories in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? Answer: No, I do not believe he did. You can read about the account of the Samaritan woman at the well in John Not much is known about this women, but from my understanding, she was not a Jew. Later in John , Jesus says " I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen.
I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. If you are looking for more examples, you can check out Matthew John and the other gospels will be your best resources for looking for more references, as these are the only books that walk with Jesus through his lifetime.
I recommend reading John first, as his gospel will have the most references to Jesus' personal life.
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