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The best news ever: the Gospel
The message of the Gospel, the only announcement through which God gives salvation, is this: the only true God commands everyone to repent and believe in Jesus, the Lord; He was crucified and died for the sins of anyone who believes in him, but he was raised from the dead. The Gospel promises salvation from sin and death to anyone who believes: as Jesus Christ lived a life without sin and now lives in eternal life with the glorified body after the resurrection, so the saved ones will be glorified and made perfect. Their sins were expiated by Jesus Christ in their place on the cross and they have been justified by the risen Lord.
For more details, please read the Gospel power. It is in the following section.
Showing the inspiration of the Bible
The Bible is inspired by God. An argumentation aiming to show this, states that the prophecy of the "seventy weeks" (Daniel 9: 24-27) foretold the period of the death of Jesus Nazarene: the prophecy states that the Messiah (translatable with "Christ", "greased", or "consecrated") would have been killed after "7 and 62 weeks" (Daniel 9: 25-26), that is 69 (= 7+62) 7-year periods (as in Leviticus 25: 8), each of 12 months (1 King 4: 7) of 30 days (150 days divided 5 months, as in Genesis 7: 11.24 and 8: 4). 69 periods of 7 years are 483 (= 69 × 7) years. 483 years of 360 (= 12 × 30) days are 173880 (= 483 × 360) days, exactly 476 (= 173880/365.25) years and 21 days of the Julian calendar. This time interval starts from the order to "reconstruct Jerusalem" (Daniel 9:25), which, based on Nehemiah 2:1,5,7,11, was issued in March or April 445 BC, twentieth year of King Artexerses (whose kingdom, historically, began in 464 BC), and ends up in March or April or May of the year 32 AD. (= 476 years -445 BC+1 year; you have to skip the year 0, adding 1 year, because the 0 does not exist in the calendar), compatibly with the period in which Jesus historically died (in spring and between 30 and 33 A.D.). The Bible does something not explainable by presupposing an absolute materialism: it predicts the future at least two centuries before (dating of the oldest manuscript of the Book of Daniel at Qumran, called 4Q114) not generically, but specifying when a certain event would have happened. The probability that this is random is less than about 2% (4 years possible divided 200 years ago 0.02). Scripure, on the other hand, explains how this is possible: the God of the Bible, the only true one, is the Lord of history and can reveal the future.