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3 meanings

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1 —as in:
gospel of the Bible

Definition

the religious teachings of Jesus

or:

one of the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that Christian's believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

The earliest surviving complete copy of the gospels dates back to the 4th century.

gospels = books in the New Testament that Christian's believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She quoted from the Gospel of John.

gospel = a book from the New Testament that Christians believe tells the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

They claim faith, but this is not what the gospel teaches.
Tara Westover -- Educated

gospel = religious teachings

The missionaries spent their first four or five nights in the marketplace, and went into the village in the morning to preach the gospel.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

gospel = religious teachings of Jesus

Then her eyes lit up, and she said, "Well, one time Big Mama told me she went out to the hives on Christmas Eve and heard the bees singing the words of the Christmas story right out of the gospel of Luke."
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

gospel = a book in the New Testament that Christian's believe tells the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

gospel = the religious teachings of Jesus

And since Mr. Dimmesdale had taken her in charge, the good grandam's chief earthly comfort—which, unless it had been likewise a heavenly comfort, could have been none at all—was to meet her pastor, whether casually, or of set purpose, and be refreshed with a word of warm, fragrant, heaven-breathing Gospel truth, from his beloved lips, into her dulled, but rapturously attentive ear.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

gospel = religious teachings of Jesus

The story is told in the gospel of John:
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

gospel = one of the four books in the New Testament that Christian's believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

Do you read the Gospel, Mr. Proctor?
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

gospel = the religious teachings of Jesus from the Bible

He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

gospels = one of the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that Christians believe tell the story of Jesus Christ's life and teachings

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2 —as in:
they consider it gospel

Definition

a set of beliefs firmly held by a group

or:

an unquestionable truth

I heard her story, but I don't take it as gospel.

gospel = an unquestionable truth

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She takes it as gospel.

gospel = an unquestionable truth

McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

gospel = unquestioned truth

I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

gospel = a set of beliefs firmly held by a group

And that's Gospel.
Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die

gospel = an unquestionable truth

"And that makes it gospel truth," he said.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

gospel = an unquestionable truth

You can't make such discoveries without spiritual equipment. And the basic elements of this equipment are in the Gospels. What are they? To begin with, love of one's neighbor, which is the supreme form of vital energy.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

gospels = unquestioned truths

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3 —as in:
gospel music

Definition

a type of vocal music that originated in African-American churches in the United States

She sings gospel music at church.