Wow. That's fascinating, Mark. IIRC, not too long ago you were insistent that the Sermon on the Mount was delivered only to Christ's apostles and not to the believing crowds who listened to Him. You made quite a point of it, saying Jesus moved away from the crowds and talked only to His disciples.
I'm glad you realize now that Christ did indeed address the multitude of believers during His Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus spends a lot of painstaking time addressing the crowds in both Matthew and Luke and you say it is not the Gospel?
What is the Gospel, Mark? We've asked before and the answer always seems to allude you.
Please be as specific as you are capable of being.
Meant to ping you to 11,150, too. No doubt you’re as eager as I am to hear what Mark believes to be the Gospel (which he earlier attributed to the Sermon on the Mount.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2578704/posts?page=11150#11150
Matthew 4:23 gives a rather all encompassing description of Jesus preaching the gospel as “the gospel of the kingdom”.
It was that gospel of the kingdom that was to be preached in all the earth, Matt. (214:14), with Christ as King and High Priest along with those who would rule with him.
It was that gospel that an angel proclaimed to all those “dwelling on the earth”.
Not the whole answer but a few salient parts.
Correction not Matt. 214 but 24 and the Rev. 14:6 in reference to the angel.
Wow. That's fascinating, Mark. IIRC, not too long ago you were insistent that the Sermon on the Mount was delivered only to Christ's apostles and not to the believing crowds who listened to Him. You made quite a point of it, saying Jesus moved away from the crowds and talked only to His disciples.
You recall incorrectly. I have made a repeated point of saying that both of them were addressed to the crowds and have shown several times in both Luke and Matthew that the sermons were delivered to all the crowds. Is this yet another example of the distortion of the Faith that is required to believe Calvinism?
What is the Gospel, Mark? We've asked before and the answer always seems to allude you.
Maybe because you (using the Royal We) ignore posts written in reply to yours. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John constitute the Gospels. Please be as specific as you are capable of being.
Okay; Calvinism is unChristian, especially as specifically practiced on FR. If the Church found out that the various Calvinist religions believe in the same god that you guys specifically do, they'd probably re-evaluate their acceptance of Calvinist baptism and put it into the same specific bin as LDS baptism.