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Good News
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Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
Because proclaiming the 'Bad News' to people you wish to convert to your side would be bad marketing. I suppose.
Because it's viewed as the good news of Salvation. It's really only the New Testament that's called that because "gospel" means "good news".
Toss a virgin into a volcano?
Monk Of Reason
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fantôme profane;3593890 said:
Too easy. You have to beat Death in a game of Battleship.
Easy? You try finding a virgin these days.
Monk Of Reason
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fantôme profane;3593895 said:
Pff I DM a D&D campaign with 4 of them.
Sees
Dragonslayer
Good news of realizing you were already saved before you knew there was something to be saved from. Early Christianity the god-spell was the Kingdom of Heaven is already here in your hearts. Something at least some Jews would understand... salvation of Christianity that won survival and became prolific isn't even related one bit to Jewish understanding. It's more related to Greek spiritual thought and mystery traditions around the Mediterranean and surrounding regions of the time.
Because people tend to be self-centered, I guess. The Bible describes SOME people being saved but most not. It seems to me that this would only be "good news" to someone with a mentality of "I've got mine, screw everyone else."
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
The Christian writings, as packaged as a whole, seem to be negative to me, not positive.
The older writings have a lot of violence in them, just as much if not more by the protagonists compared to the antagonists. Some really genocidal stuff in there.
Then later there's this idea that the world is ending (although they seemed to be under the impression that it was happening shortly, 2000 years ago), and if you don't agree with this new religion before the world ends, you suffer, so you better agree with it. :areyoucra
Basically it's like, before you present the good news, you have to make them believe the bad news, because the good news itself is still terrible compared to the status quo of there not being any of this news to begin with.
The older writings have a lot of violence in them, just as much if not more by the protagonists compared to the antagonists. Some really genocidal stuff in there.
Then later there's this idea that the world is ending (although they seemed to be under the impression that it was happening shortly, 2000 years ago), and if you don't agree with this new religion before the world ends, you suffer, so you better agree with it. :areyoucra
Basically it's like, before you present the good news, you have to make them believe the bad news, because the good news itself is still terrible compared to the status quo of there not being any of this news to begin with.
NobodyYouKnow
Misanthropist
Because God said: "I got some good news and some bad news, what do you want to hear first?" *jks
starlite
Texasgirl
Thank you for your perspective...interesting. But, according to Luke 1:31,32 Jesus would be the appointed as ruler of God's Kingdom...so wouldn't that indicate that it isn't something in our hearts? Also, Daniel 2:44 indicates that God's Kingdom will crush and put an end to all other kingdoms...can that be done in our hearts?
Actually, it says this:
Luke 1:31-32
New International Version (NIV)
31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
Sure. It just means that once someone's gotten a glimpse of "the Kingdom" they'll no longer be subservient to whatever they'd heretofore been subservient to.