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Offline Lazarus Short

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Re: The Kingdom of God
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2013, 09:18:08 PM »
Quote from: ded2daworld on March 19, 2013, 04:30:16 PM
This may be an unconventional point of veiw. IMO, the "kingdom of heaven" is... God. Just like now He can be in you and outside of you simultaneously. Just as he is inside of time and his creation yet, at the same time outside of both. There, now it's all cleared up> :laughing7:

God is not contained in time, the universe, or His kingdom.  Remember that a kingdom consists of four things:

a King
a piece of real estate
a body of Law
subjects

Take any of the four away, and you arguably do not have a Kingdom.
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Socrates taught Plato.  Plato taught Aristotle.  Aristotle tutored the son of Philip of Macedon.  This boy grew up to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people.  That's philosophy.

Jesus spoke the Truth.  He blessed the poor.  He healed the sick.  He even raised the dead.  He died on a cross for us, lived again, and came back long enough to tell us to love one another.  That's religion.

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Re: The Kingdom of God
« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2013, 09:25:32 PM »
That's what I thought I said Laz - God is inside and outside his creation and time and us.
To me a kingdom is a King and subjects and that's all.
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No matter what others may say or write, only the word of God is the word of God.

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Re: The Kingdom of God
« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2013, 09:30:42 PM »
I thought you were saying that God is the Kingdom, period.  You at least forgot the real estate (the universe).
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Socrates taught Plato.  Plato taught Aristotle.  Aristotle tutored the son of Philip of Macedon.  This boy grew up to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people.  That's philosophy.

Jesus spoke the Truth.  He blessed the poor.  He healed the sick.  He even raised the dead.  He died on a cross for us, lived again, and came back long enough to tell us to love one another.  That's religion.
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