What does the "Gospel" means to Paul.

What does the "Gospel" means to Paul. Remember, he never met Jesus, and his letters precede the four gospels, so for Paul, the gospel is not a literary genre. But he does have a very firm position on the gospel. Can someone please explain this to me in detail.

Paul was supposedly born and raised in the city of Tarsus, a region in SE Asia-Minor (now called Turkey) where Mithras was well known. Biblical scholars are now saying that Paul, the alleged author of 13 out of the 27 (maybe more) books of the New Testament, may have been influenced in his writings by this strong religion of Mithraism. We can see a profound kinship between Mithraism and Christianity. In my mind, there are two Jesus' teachings. Jesus the Jew and Jesus the Gentile, which by the way is really Paul's Jesus. And guess which one Christians follow? The ex-pagan Constantine liked Paul's Jesus over Jesus the Jew. Jesus and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens. “There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences)

Hope this helps you. ;-)

Loosely translated, the word gospel meant "good news" in that area and time.

The fact that so many biblical scholars have literally dissected the known information word-for-word over two thousand years without producing anything accepted as fact, says to me the answer to so many of these questions is that we simply don't know.

It has always been my belief that any explanation of the creation has to include all of life on Earth, not just a small minority of the world population living in the Middle East, whether Christian or later, Muslim. In my mind there is a lot of history in the Biblical documents about people in that area but no conclusive facts about the origin of mankind. How did the Asians, Indians and native peoples of the rest of the world fit in with these very limited theories is a valid question that you should consider if looking for the truth.