Were the gospels written and canonized when these words were penned? (and the other 80+ times the word appears in the NT )
Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Act 8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
The word gospel means GOOD NEWS what was the gospel that Jesus taught and that the apostles preached? What is the GOOD NEWS ?
I understand that the gospels were written and canonized after the living Gospel was preached, but I was talking about Luther ignoring the written gospels as he developed his theories.