The Gospel
>the world is fallen - this is a universally accepted truth that shows itself every single day by people having the innate urge to correct a perceived moral wrong in society or the human condition. Your very job as a glowie speaks to this as, if the world were not fallen, then you would not be employed
>the Bible provides us a narrative that perfectly explains the current condition of the world
>in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and He created Man in His own image (a being with free will and dominion)
>He gave unto Man the Earth, and tested him with just one rule: do not eat of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil
>tempted by Satan, Man ate the fruit and committed the first Sin, which means to break the design and desires of God
>God removed Man from Paradise and left him to be his own desires ; i.e. left him as sovereign over a fallen world
>the cost of eating of the fruit, however, is death. God will some day come back to pay that debt unto Man
>however, God is righteousness and loves Man, and so He set out on a plan to ransom Man and return Him to Paradise
>God spoke to Man through His Prophets for millenia, setting apart a peoples, the Israelites, to pave the way for salvation unto the world
>God gave us glimpses of this plan throughout many an ordeal, such as what was celebrated on Passover: the "passing over" of God's wrath from those Egyptians who sanctified their homes through the blood of a Lamb and ate of its flesh
>He told us a Christ - a "Messiah", meaning an anointed one; meaning a King will come unto the Earth and bring salvation to God's people
>when the world was finally at the desired place, God Himself came unto the world as the man, Jesus of Nazareth aka Jesus son of Joseph aka Jesus Christ aka Jesus the King
>He came unto the world to preach to Man directly, eye to eye, and to show him the Way to repentence: to trust in Him and Him alone, so that His righteousness lived as Man may account for the unriPost too long. Click here to view the full text.