The Way of Righteousness . Injil is an Arabic word meaning Good News . Before we begin our study in the Gospel, it would be good for us to remember why God planned to send a Savior to the descendants of Adam. In the Torah, we saw how Adam's disobedience led the whole human race away from the kingdom of God and into the kingdom of Satan. Adam's sin is the reason every one of us is born in crookedness.
Sinners produce sinners.
As we have already seen, on the very day that Adam and Eve sinned, God began to make known His wonderful plan to send a Redeemer into the world who could deliver the descendants of Adam from the dominion of Satan and sin. The Messiah, who was to shed His blood as the Perfect Sacrifice for sinners, could not descend from an earthly father tainted with sin. He had to be perfect and holy even as God is perfect and holy. Let us now return to the book of the Gospel so that we might see how God fulfilled what He promised concerning this perfect and holy Redeemer who was to be born of a virgin-a young woman who had never been intimate with a man. In our last lesson, we saw how God's angel, Gabriel, appeared to a Jew by the name of Zechariah.