When modern evangelicals talk about “the gospel” they usually mean telling people a set of facts about how their souls might go to heaven when they die.
How interesting then that in Galatians 3:8 Paul writes, “And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘In you shall all the nations be blessed.’” Where is the talk about souls going to heaven? Nations being blessed? Huh?
According to St. Paul, the gospel declared to Abraham was that the heathen nations would be converted. Man, we have a lot of re-thinking to do when it comes to the word “gospel.”
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