The Meaning of the Word or the Term Gospel, and the Four Gospels and the Revelation, the Inspiration, the Word of the LORD, the Burden and the Oracle

Chapter II

The Word or the Term Gospel in the New Testament

The contradictions, discrepancies and differences between the principles and concepts of the Gospels and the principles and concepts of the Old Testament, as is shown in the previous chapter, are insufficient and not enough alone to prove that it's a new religion, unrelated with the religion of the prophets of the children of Israel, and were not written by the revelation or inspiration of the Holy Spirit, from the point of view of the churches. The Gospels authors and the rest of the New Testament authors, especially Paul, who was fully aware these contradictions, discrepancies and differences, or more precisely, he who has founded them, for this he sought in his letters to  justify these contradictions, discrepancies and differences, as shown previously, and considered that this issue is not because of difference sources, but the principles and the concepts of his beliefs have been hidden from all of the former prophets, and has been revealed to him and his followers! As in the following texts:

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

1 Corinthians 2:8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

Ephesians 3:1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles —

Ephesians 3:2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

Ephesians 3:3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,

Ephesians 3:4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

Ephesians 3:5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

Ephesians 3:6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

Ephesians 3:7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

Ephesians 3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Ephesians 3:9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 3:10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 3:11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Romans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began

Romans 16:26 but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith —

In these texts Paul says that the principles and concepts which based on worshiping three gods, who incarnated in the flesh, or at least one of them, according to the faith of every church of the various churches, and they had been flogged, and mocked and spat on them, and crucified and died; was a secret hidden from all Prophets, and that this mystery has not been revealed to anyone else, but only to him and the saints!

This is true in this sense only, because there is no one of the former prophets had spoken about such as this perception about the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth, but what is the reality of this mystery which Paul had spoken about?

The reality of this mystery can be recognized by comparing it with the other mysteries which Paul had told to his followers, as in the following text:

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed —

In this text Paul reveals another mystery, which was not known by anyone else before him, and has not been seen by anyone else after him, which is that he and his followers would not pass away until the next coming of Jesus, which is what he says more clearly in the following text:

1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Yet, unfortunately, the history has shown that this mystery was not true, and he and his followers had fallen asleep, and after them dozens of generations, thus, the failure to achieve this mystery shows that the first mystery is not true, and is not from the Revelation or by the Word of the Lord, because if it was from the Revelation or by the Word of the Lord; it should not contradicts the texts of the revelation in the Old Testament that confirms the greatest fact in the cosmos; which is the Oneness of the LORD the Creator, and worship Him alone, and the lack of the true gods with Him or beside Him, and with the clarity of this fact, but I will mention text from the Old Testament refutes all the words of Paul and the others that the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth hid some secrets from the former prophets, which is as follows:

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

The Lord the Creator does not say any word unless it is a clear; and reveals His secret to the prophets, especially His Oneness, and the lack of the true gods with Him or beside Him, who participated with Him in creating the heavens and earth, or deserve to be worshiped with Him or beside Him, thus, this text invalidates all the words of Paul and the others about hiding the mystery of the Trinity.

The insistence of the New Testament authors and the churches considering that the New Testament and their beliefs are an extension of the Old Testament and its principles and concepts, requires us to examine the Gospels in the New Testament objectively and subjectively, i.e., study the meaning of the word Gospel, and the places mentioned therein, and the purpose of writing the Gospels, and the methods and ways of writing, and the lost Gospels which are mentioned in the Letters of the New Testament. As well as study the texts of the Gospels which were quoted from the Old Testament. This will give us a clear idea of the reality of the Gospels, and if they had been written by the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or not, and the sources that were relied on to write the Gospels, and I will begin with the meaning of the word Gospel.

The Meaning of the Word or Term Gospel

The word or the term Gospel is of Greek origin εὐαγγέλιον "Euangelion", which means the Good News. The four Gospels and the rest of the letters of the New Testament have mentioned the word gospel or its linguistic roots, noun, verb and Term, etc., several times. So, the various churches say that the meaning of Gospel is the preaching Jesus through telling some parts of his life, his words, his deeds and his miracles, and where it is mentioned in the New Testament as a term, it refers to the four Gospels, and this notion contains a lot of simplification of the meaning of the gospel or the good news, for two reasons, the first is that what we read of the contradictions and differences among the Gospels each other, whether in the chronology of events, or the sayings that were attributed to Jesus and the other figures of the Gospels; indicates that they did not write the biography of Jesus, because if so, these contradictions and differences should not be existed, especially since the church says that the writers were of the Disciples of Jesus directly or of their followers, and they talk about one person at a certain time, and they were living at that time, or heard from who lived at that time. The second reason is that the word gospel was not used as a person's biography, whether they are prophets or leaders or an ordinary person, which means that the meaning of gospel refers to the state of metaphysical to tell or predict for something, whether for a person or event through revelation, whether direct revelation, or through interpreting the previous revelation, or through other methods such as an extrapolation of historical events or natural, and get some results to serve certain purposes interest to the preachers during their missionary works.

So what is the exact meaning of the term gospel, or the good news, in the four Gospels and the New Testament Letters?

Is it a book, or books, which was written by order of Jesus?

Or is it a book, or books, of inspiration, which the writers had received through the Revelation or the Spirit or the Word of the Lord, as was the case of the prophets of the Old Testament?

Or is it a book, or books, of short stories that were formulated through quoting the texts and narratives of the Old Testament to talk about the parts of the life of Jesus and his words, works, deeds and miracles, and saying to people they were prophecies which have been fulfilled in Jesus and his time?

Or is it a book, or books, to record parts of the life of Jesus as it indeed happened; as a biography of Jesus?

These questions and others will be answered in the following pages.

The Four Gospels and the Revelation, the Inspiration, the Word of the LORD, the Burden and the Oracle

One of the most astonishing and striking facts that may surprise the readers of the four Gospels, is that they devoid of any reference that they had been written by the Revelation, or by order of Jesus, or by Oracle, or by the Word of the LORD, or by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit! As is the case with the Old Testament Books, where there are dozens of texts say that Moses had received the Torah from the LORD through direct talking or by writing on the Stone Tablets, as well as the rest of the Prophets, where there are dozens of texts that say that they had received revelation, as in the following texts:

2 Samuel 23:1 Now these are the last words of David. Thus says David the son of Jesse; Thus says the man raised up on high, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel:

2 Samuel 23:2 "The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.

2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘He who rules over men must be just, Ruling in the fear of God.

Isaiah 13:1 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 15:1 The burden against Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed,

Isaiah 17:1 The burden against Damascus. "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 19:1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a branch of an almond tree."

Jeremiah 2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Joel 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

Amos 1:3 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.

Jonah 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Nahum 1:1 The burden against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Habakkuk 1:1 The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.

Zephaniah 1:1 The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

Haggai 1:1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Zechariah 1:1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Malachi 1:1 Because if tre veruzim padtsword of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

Numbers 24:15 So he took up his oracle and said: "The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened.

Hence, the lack of any reference in the four Gospels indicates that the writers have received them from Jesus, or through the Revelation or the Spirit or the Word of the Lord; raises many questions about the purpose and the way of writing, and their sources, and the two texts which the various churches have cited on this issue, i.e., that they had been written by the Revelation and the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit; were not intended the four Gospels, which are as follows:

2 Timothy 3:14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

2 Timothy 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

In this text we read that Paul asked Timothy to keep the Scriptures, and says that all is given by inspiration of God, and the Scriptures here refers to the books of the Old Testament, not the four Gospels, because the Gospels have been written after writing the Letters of Paul dozens of years, also talks about the books that were well-known to Timothy in his childhood, which at the very least before writing this letter ten years, and in this period certainly the four Gospels haven't been written yet, and finally, Paul, as will be seen later, did not preach from the four Gospels, but he was has his own gospel for preaching, as will be shown later.

2Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

2Peter 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,

2Peter 1:21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

In this text Peter says that he has the prophetic word, and this indicates to the Old Testament, not to the four Gospels, for two reasons, the first is that he had written his letters before writing the four Gospels, the second is that he was has his own Gospel which he was preaching from it, as we will see later, so if we say that he means by "the prophetic word" is a Revelation which was with him or his Gospel, why the churches did not keep the revelation that was with Peter?!

And this will be clearer if we know that Peter in his second letter has recommended his followers to read the letters of Paul, not to read the four Gospels, as in the following text:

2Peter 3:15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation — as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,

2Peter 3:16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

This text is further evidence that the four Gospels had not been written at that time, or at least he did not consider them as that they have a particular value and should be adhered to it, and this indicates that the prophetic word in Peter's Letter does not refer to the four Gospels.

The bottom line is that there is no text shows or proves that the four Gospels had been written by order of Jesus, or by the revelation, or by the Word of the Lord or by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and all attempts and efforts by the churches to prove this issue did not succeed.