**After the apostles died, was the gospel hopelessly lost until the Reformation?**
No, Gospels were all written in the first century. As were Paul’s letters.
Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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.
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Salvation what was the "Gospel " that Jesus preached before "the gospels" were written ?
RnMomof7 - Thank you for posting this excellent article.
Salvation, I think you and RnMomof7 are actually in agreement. RnM is saying that those modern Protestants who reject the writings of the church fathers and that the gospels were ‘figuratively lost’ (my terminology) between 100 AD and Martin Luther, are wrong.
See also this comment by Vladimir998’s post #16.
Indeed. I haven’t seen such a magnificent straw man set up since Burning Man in the desert. And look how easily he gets knocked down!