Random Religious Thoughts

...must have been one of the 5 or so Boson particles @CERN, as it could not have been God in Genesis, as I view that figuratively, not literally....(I feel compelled to disclose that the CERN remark is humor, so that it will not be taken literally.) This will be my last response to you. Your CERN remark was not in good faith, how ironic.
 
QuickTwist said:
4) Jesus did not FOCUS on the Kingdom being within us. He said that a single time, and it's easy to twist this and make it Jesus' central message when it's not. His main message was to repent of your sins, not that God is within you, which is an Eastern Pagan idea. Matthew 4:17 "From then on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near.”"
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"in Luke 17:21 "for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" in response to the Pharisees asking when the Kingdom of God will come.....The editors of the Jerusalem Bible suggest that "among you" is preferable to "within you" because "within you" does not furnish as direct an answer to the Pharisees' question."

But this notion of the subjective nature of the divine is a heavily gnostic one. Lumping gnosticism in with "Eastern Pagan idea", while convenient sophistically, is historically inaccurate. Most of the 1st and 2nd Century gnostics considered themselves Christians and the Gospel of Thomas, while considered heretical since the 4th century, is arguably a genuine source of reported sayings of Jesus.

"the Gospel of Thomas conveys that Jesus ridiculed those who thought of the Kingdom of God in literal terms, as if it were a specific place. ..... readers are to believe the "Kingdom" symbolizes a state of transformed consciousness."
 
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