Wait a minute, it's coming to me. What we really need is another Calvinist word game? They haven't wrought enough havoc with their predestinarian construct, now they need to attack "the meaning of the Gospel" too. We need to have everyone pestered to see if they can guess some foolish Calvinist construct (which, of course, the Calvinists then equate with "the [otherwise undisclosed] meaning of the Gospel"). It's that good ol' 'mystery religion' nonsense again.
Now, of course, "the meaning of the Gospel" could not be found in a Biblical passage. Those are too long and wordy -- and, worse yet, the Scriptures are mixed with all that evil "Arminian" doctrine which those nice, 5-words-or-less Calvinist formulations neatly avoid. That's why the Calvinist formulations are soooooo much better than the Scriptural ones.
So, we need to learn and focus on the Calvinist "refined Gospel" (5 words or less) -- BTW, is that related to "reformed Egyptian"? -- and avoid the Scriptures at all cost.
No, Woody, I'm sorry. For the mid-double-digit-IQ Calvinists in the group, I have never learned the "Calvinist 5-words-or less gospel", nor do I care to -- this one is quite satisfactory for me:
"For this is the way God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God."
Now, Woody, I realize that exceeds your 5-word attention span -- and, mirabile dictu, it omits all those 'wonderous' TULIP doctrines, all that double predestination nonsense and all that stuff about regeneration having to come before conversion and the other stuff which Calvin made up, but it is a pretty good summary of the Gospel nonetheless.
And I'll take God's Word over your silly 5 words anytime. Sorry, Woody, go pound sand.
Funny winston cause the 5 words or less are straight out of the Bible, you know, word for word. Admit it, you don't have a clue what the GOSPEL is. If you did, you would have immediately posted it.
So, tell me, what words of man do you use and call a "gospel?" Is it your wierd gospel where Jesus is standing at the door to a perverse heart and hoping against the scripture itself that somehow from the abundance of a perverse heart that the person will bring forth the treasure of righteousness?
Hey, here's a thought: Do you believe like ftd that the gospel changes over time?
Oh, BTW, you might find this interesting, given that you seem to be waiting for all the planets to come into perfect alignment before you begin to share your manmade gospel: Evidently over the next few days several of the planets will come into a perfect triangle alignment which will be visible in the night sky. The last time this occured was 2000 years ago. So, here's your big change to spread your manmade message...
As for me, I'll stick to the gospel found in the Bible that I preached last night...