The Reward: The Blessed Hope of the "Gospel" is neither to Escape nor to Get Things, but the Becoming of God, the Return to Being the Ineffable No-thing Manifesting Ongoingly

I was taught wrong for sixty years that the Greek word for Gospel, euaggelion (pronounced euangelion) means 'good news.'

I disagree. That is as silly as saying the Hebrew word Abraham means "the father of many nations." (Abraham means "Allaha's Mercy," "Merciful Father," or "the Father is Merciful," for which reason Abraham becomes the father of many peoples.) The Gospel is good news, except the word euaggelion does not mean "Good news," as in a message which is good. Says Millar Burrows in The Origen of the Term Gospel (see "The Mystery Post I Cannot Write: Gospel, Revelation, Reward, Power", on June 20, 2020), the Greek word euaggelion meant "reward."

Bing! Bing! Bing! Suddenly we have a whole new Bible, a new method, and a new procedure, no? There is a reward now available to believers due to Christ's birth, life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. The kerygma is not the Gospel; it is how the reward became available. Christ died FOR the reward and received it. He now gives it freely to whoever will believe (not philosophically, but in active belief). We are not to preach a theoretical message, a logic or argument, but are to announce the reality of the REWARD, the return to the state of sinlessness before God, by demonstration. The price has been paid, the fault (ignorance) forgiven. There is real and literal reconciliation to God - back to awareness of the oneness - IF WE WILL BELIEVE.