'Good News' in the Bible
I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different 'Good News,'
Which is really no Good News at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the Good News of the Christ.
Yet even if we--or if an angel from Heaven were to tell you any other 'Good News' than that which we told you, may he be accursed!
We have said it before, and I repeat it now--If any one tells you a 'Good News' other than that which you received, may he be accursed!
I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good News which I told is no mere human invention.
Saw fit to reveal his Son in me, so that I might tell the Good News of him among the Gentiles, then at once, instead of consulting any human being,
All that they had heard was--'The man who once persecuted us is now telling the Good News of the very Faith of which he once made havoc.'
It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.
Why, we did not for a moment yield submission to them, that the Truth of the Good News might be yours always!
On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Gentiles, just as Peter had been for the Jews.
But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"
And Scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the Good News to Abraham in the words--'Through thee all the Gentiles shall be blessed.'
You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the Good News.