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However scandalous it may seem, by the 4th century A.D., the original biblical meaning of the term "gospel" was lost. What "gospel" did Jesus preach at the start of His ministry? Mark 1:14...that first came to Abraham? Galatians 3:8...was also preached in the days of Moses? Hebrews 3:16-4:2...was known by John the Baptist before he baptized Jesus? Luke 3:18...and later was preached by Jesus'' disciples, prior to knowing their Rabbi would go to the cross? Luke 9:6. Each verse references preaching of a "gospel" that could not have possibly been "the story of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus." After more than a millennium, the "''gospel'' of the kingdom" has been identified once again. "Christianity" was originally a faith movement within Judaism, wherein a group of Jewish disciples followed and lived by the teachings of the Rabbi Yeshuah, (Jesus). Continuing in the spirituality of Moses, Jesus taught adherents how to embrace divine empowerment from God by entry into the kingdom. His followers recorded these teachings in the Koine Greek Scriptures. Jesus was not understood by the religious establishment of His time and was crucified. Nevertheless, the faith movement grew. Initially the scriptures served posterity to lead them into the wonders of the kingdom of God. However, the characteristics of the movement changed markedly in the first 300 years. In the 1st century A.D., the Hebraic Faith Movement that began with Abraham reached its apex about 50 years after the death of Jesus and was labeled "Christianity." By the 4th century A.D., Christianity had completed its transition from what originated as an Eastern minded Hebraic faith tradition, and then developed later into a Western thinking, Aristotelian, Gentile religious movement. Like a tree severed from its root, the latter group was no longer dominated by its original constituency. Christians who were filled with antipathy for the Jews, redefined a new religious identity largely through interpretation o