What is the Gospel?The word "gospel" is a carbon copy (direct translation), the Greek word "Evangelion", which literally means "good news."Gospel - a text describing the life of Jesus Christ.The most famous of these are the four canonical Scripture - the Gospel of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.However, this definition can describe the apocryphal or non-canonical texts, Gnostic and a Jew-Christian gospels.In Islam, there is the concept of "Injil" is used to refer to a book about Christ that is sometimes translated as "the gospel."This is one of the four holy books of Islam, which is considered a divine revelation, according to the Koran.Muslims are of the opinion that over time Injil has been redesigned and is distorted, causing God sent to earth of the Prophet Muhammad to the people showed the last book - the Koran.
traditional Christianity really appreciates the four canonical Gospels, which are considered to be revealed, and are the basis of religious belief system.Christians claim that the Gospel gives a precise and reliable picture of the life of Jesus Christ, but many scholars agree that not all of the episodes from the scriptures are historically accurate.
What Gospel Christian canonical Scriptures
In ancient times, there have been many texts pretending to authentic description of the life of Christ, but only four of them were recognized as canonical, that is entered in the New Testament.The insistence that the canon includes these books rather than any other, in the year 185 put forward one of the Fathers of the Church Irenaeus.In his main work "Against the Heresies" Irenaeus denounces various early Christian groups, who recognize only one of the Gospels.So, Marcionites relied only on the Gospel of Luke in the version of Marcion, and Ebionites were known to follow the Aramaic version of Matthew.There are also groups that adhere to the writings of more recent origin.
Irenaeus declared that they put forward four tests are the "pillar and ground of the Church.""It is impossible to be more or less than four" - he says, referring to the analogy with the four cardinal points and the four winds.Present them a metaphor for the divine throne, which is supported by four creatures with four faces (lion, bull, eagle and man), he was taken from the Book of Ezekiel and sent to the "quadrilateral" gospel.Ultimately, Irenaeus succeeded in what is the gospel, which includes four writings, it was considered the only true.He also supported the study of each scripture in the light of the others.
In the early 5th century, the Catholic Church in the person of Innocent I recognized the biblical canon, which included the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which was already approved in some regional synods Roman Church Council (382), Hippo Council (393)and two Councils of Carthage (397 and 419).Thus, the translated St. Jerome in 382 by order of Pope Damasus I became the accepted canon.
