You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins… Only the Gospel transforms.
First of all, let us understand what the Gospel is. There are the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; so called because they are the compilation of the life of Jesus Christ;
Each one with their narratives, sometimes similar, sometimes so different, as each one composed according to the purpose of writing for whoever would receive it, determining time, historical conception, ideology and forcefulness, whether for Jews, Romans, Greeks and peoples.
What I call the Gospel with a capital “G” is, in addition; The narrative of the gospels gives the historical testimony of Jesus, in them I know how Jesus behaved before religious people, thieves and prostitutes, in the narratives of the gospels I know how he loved, how he treated his neighbor, I know his teachings, the gospels present to me God with sweat, wrinkles, he is hungry, thirsty, he cries and rejoices and allows himself to be killed.
The Gospel therefore that transforms is Jesus himself, no longer as a historical witness but the Christ who in history was Jesus. ANDThe gospel is God with all the implications that I know through the gospels, being, I know how I should be, how I should act, I know how I am, I know where I came from and where I am going; I know how Jesus treats me and I know how I relate to Him.
This Gospel is in the gospels (narratives), it is in Genesis, Paul's letters and Revelation.
Therefore, the Gospel is Jesus with everything He presents to me as who He is.
Only this Gospel has the power to transform man's life.
We – poor mortals – are a set of “blocks” that make us into this unique puzzle; These “blocks” are variable and determinable according to each person’s life, taking into account the environment in which they lived, the education they had, aligning with their own genetics, what is called social environment, parental figures and genetics. All of this fits together and makes you an individual with your own tastes, opinions, determinisms, expressions, volitions.
This living soul is what Paul (the apostle) calls a natural man. Natural because he follows the course of life, and according to the “blocks” that this life presents to him or that he seeks, he will be transformed into a moralist, moral or amoral (which is only a conception of the law of the majority from the point of view (which is only the view from one point) of a society, which has its “blocks” in the collective consciousness).
Fabiano Moreno