What actually is the good news that Jesus preached?

[tp3192000]

I still don’t understand. What is the Gospel? Please explain this in a way for someone who has never heard of Jesus.

According to Wikipedia, “gospel” means a proclamation of good news. The New Testament, a collection of inspired writings contains four Gospels and other writings and letters. The four canonical gospels are accepted by the Catholic Church as sacred. There are other gospels that are written that are not accepted as being sacred writings by the Catholic Church as well.
Your original question was what is the “good news” that was referenced in the stories about what Jesus preached. Ironically, it has the same meaning as “gospel”. You can read the gospels yourself. Be careful that you choose a recent version that is accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, as these are the most carefully translated and explained in detail in the footnotes.
You are right to question what is the “good news”. Nowhere is it fully explained what exactly is the “good news”, so I offered my opinion and others have offered theirs.

 

[jmcrae]

Luke 8:1-3
Ok, so Jesus is traveling through the villages preaching the good news of the Kingdom of God. What did he say? St. Luke doesn’t tell us.
I’m looking for details. I too want to know this good news.

That the Kingdom of God has come near to the earth, and that God’s forgiveness of sins is available to everyone, no matter how bad things have gotten.

It was the Good News of the Incarnation.

Obviously Jesus had not yet died for our sins on the Cross; and He was still in the process of developing the Church, but He was available in person to heal, restore, and forgive all who came to Him.

The essence of the Gospel is that Christ has saved us from our sins, and we have a fresh start.

 

[jmcrae]

OK. What is the Kingdom of God?

It is God, restoring everything to its right way of being.

 

[fhansen]

Luke 8:1-3
Ok, so Jesus is traveling through the villages preaching the good news of the Kingdom of God. What did he say? St. Luke doesn’t tell us.
I’m looking for details. I too want to know this good news.

Jesus came to reconcile man with God, to find His sheep who didn’t even know for sure they were lost. When we meet Jesus we come to know the nature of God as never before: of His existence, of His uncompromising trustworthiness, of His goodness, His mercy, of His boundless love, IOW. And of His promise of eternal life which Jesus proved by His resurrection.

The promises of the New Covenant concern God authentically becoming the God of man again, after humankind was exiled from Him at the Fall, and of His placing His laws on our hearts and writing them in our minds, making us truly righteous according to His will, and not by our own efforts, convicting us of sin, forgiving us our sins, and helping us to ‘go, and sin no more’, preparing us for heaven, for complete union with Him, to the degree we accept His offer, to the degree we cooperate with His grace.

The Good News is that God exists, God is infinitely good and desires only the absolute best for man, and we need Him order to have life and life abundantly- inexhaustible, eternal, peace, joy, and happiness.