The question is posed, “What’s the difference between attribute (uh-trib-yoot) and attribute (a-truh-byoot)?”  Though it is more effectively spoken than written, the point is still available.  One is a verb meaning to regard as belonging to, as produced by, or resulting from, whereas the other is a noun meaning a property, quality, or feature belonging to or representative of a person or thing.  The two words are closely related and even share the same spelling.  To a careful listener, the similar words can be identified as distinct on the basis of these two things; where the emphasis is placed in pronunciation and the context in which the word is used.  Similarly, the gospel becomes another word when the emphasis is dis/misplaced.

If you have had any experience with modern Churchianity, you have no doubt heard that the gospel is this: the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins.  When presented as the fullness, or at least the core, of the gospel, this message is a false gospel.  It is false because it is only a part, and not even the main part, of the message though it is presented as the whole or main thing.  If the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins is the gospel, how then do the scriptures say that the disciples were sent out by Jesus to preach the gospel, long before Jesus died (Luke 9:1-6)?

Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.  He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.  Whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.  And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”  So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.   Luke 9:1-6

Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom.

Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”  Mark 1:14-15

Paul taught the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And when they [Paul and Barnabas] had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”  Acts 14:21-22

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;  strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.  He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:9-14

The Gospel is of the Kingdom of God.  But what about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus?  Noting the italicized portion of the above Colossians passage, it is clear that His blood provides the means by which we enter into the kingdom.  The same point is emphasized in 1 Corinthians 15.  The chapter opens with Paul reminding the Corinthians of the message that was preached to them concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus, as it is, again, the means by which we receive the kingdom.  In his epistle, Paul initially highlights this portion of the message to address the false teaching specific to the Corinthians at the time, but message concerning the kingdom is still clear when you survey the entire chapter.

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve… Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.  And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty… But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.  For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.  But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 2Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.  For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.  For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all… Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.  1 Corinthians 15:1-5, 12-14, 20-28, 50-53

By the blood of Jesus we enter into the kingdom of God.  By His blood our old sins are forgiven and we are empowered, through His death, to refrain from sin and be holy as He is.  Jesus died not just for the forgiveness of sins, but for the remission (that is “sending away”) of sins.  That is why the scripture says,

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”  Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.  1 Corinthians 15:33-34

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?  Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 6:1-11

To say it again, the kingdom is the Gospel and death and resurrection of Jesus provide the means by which we enter into it.  It was and is essential that His death provides to us a release from the dominion (and by association the sustained practice) of sin because as the scripture says,

But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.  Revelation 21:27

Continued sin is such a serious issue, Jesus says to cut off your hand or pluck out your eye if they cause you to sin (Matthew 5:29-30).  Though Paul was the chief of sinners and David a man after God’s own heart, they did not continue in sin at the Lord’s rebuke.  Paul did not continue to murder when the power of God created him anew, nor did David continue to commit adultery and murder following his repentance from those dead works.  If a man teaches you that it is okay to continue in sin because the blood of Jesus has covered you (you’re eternally secure), he only teaches half the truth; just enough to get you to the lake of fire.  Before we received faith we were wretched sinners.  In Christ we are the children of God who are to be holy as He is, for that is how it is manifest that we are his children, by our practice of righteousness (1 John 3:2-7).  Dear children, stay away from sin-soaked, deceitful workers that teach eternal security rather than repentance from sin!  They can’t help you be free from a master to whom they are still in bondage.  The Gospel demands repentance.  When the Lord Jesus returns, do not be found wanting.