Kingdom of God

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If you care about conversating in this thread and are passionate about the topic or just the theory you shared, why not post in your own words. When that is interesting people might consider going for a read on such a site
If you just present a theory with a link as fact and get defensive when I ask something that does not have to be taken offense of AT ALL I am not inclined to go read a bunch of stuff you deliberately tried to share as if it was more than just a theory.

 

well, it is

 

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you

Regards
DL

 

Hierarchical organization is a small ego device who's only way to growth is through exceptionalism. Your material is self depreciating. Consider the lilies of the field they neither toil nor spin. The only power structure is absorption reflection and polarity.

 

Explain? :2thumbsup:

 

Jehovah God appointed him and Jesus is already ruling in heaven now as king.

He is working with the Christian Congregation now fullfilling his fathers will "to preach the good news of the kingdom in the entire inhabited earth.

Yes! Make a home with us. Jehovah, Jesus and the angels want to be united with the human family and the tent of God will be with mankind.

Revelation 21:3,4 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.The former things have passed away.”

It is all in the translation.
Luke 17:21nor will people say, ‘See here!’ or, ‘There!’ For look! the Kingdom of God is in your midst.”

midst noun \ˈmidst, ˈmitst\ :

the middle area or part of something

the period of time when something is happening or being done

Romans 8:29 because those whom he gave his first recognition he also foreordained to be patterned after the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers

No

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren

 

The spark of God is within all men and women but if you like to think that God would abandon any of us then follow that loser all you like.

I prefer your bible verses that say that none of us are ever lost to God. That is his will and his will is supreme.

Not your God though. He is an evil loser who admits to being moved to do evil by Satan.

Regards
DL

 

Any intelligent man who is not somewhat confused by Christianity and would not reject their religion would not be as intelligent as he thinks.

Perhaps your confusion places you smack dab in the middle of that graft.

Not a bad place to seek God from.

Thin of Gnostic Christianity and that may settle your thinking. It will certainly improve your morals and drive a stake through any of your Christian thinking if you have any. Seems you have already made a good first move though.

Regards
DL

 

Jehovah does not abandon. Men and Women are seperated from God because of their selfish inclinations of thier heart. Jehovah warmly invites anyone to become his friend regardless of their past. But he does require exclusive devotion because God is love.
Jehovah can do no evil because he is holy. No badness can come from him.

 

a little confusing but I will give a shot at what you are saying. Actually after re reading I am still a little confused. Trust in Jehovah

 

B.S. Christians lie so easily. Tsk tsk.

Eve was correct in eating of the tree of knowledge and rejecting God.


It was God's plan from the beginning to have Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. This can be demonstrated by the fact that the bible says that Jesus "was crucified from the foundations of the Earth," that is to say, God planned to crucify Jesus as atonement for sin before he even created human beings or God damned sin.

1Peter 1:20 0 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

This indicates that Jesus had no choice.

If God had not intended humans to sin from the beginning, why did he build into the Creation this "solution" for sin? Why create a solution for a problem you do not anticipate?

God knew that the moment he said "don't eat from that tree," the die was cast. The eating was inevitable. Eve was merely following the plan.

This then begs the question.

What kind of God would plan and execute the murder of his own son when there was absolutely no need to?

Only an insane God. That’s who.

The cornerstone of Christianity is human sacrifice, thus showing it‘s immorality.

One of Christianity's highest form of immorality is what they have done to women. They have denied them equality and subjugated them to men.

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Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite "free will!", or “ it’s all man’s fault”.

That is "God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hence God is not blameworthy."

But this simply avoids God's culpability as the author of Human Nature. Free will is only the ability to choose. It is not an explanation why anyone would want to choose "A" or "B" (bad or good action). An explanation for why Eve would even have the nature of "being vulnerable to being easily swayed by a serpent" and "desiring to eat a forbidden fruit" must lie in the nature God gave Eve in the first place. Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall, and "free will" means nothing as a response to this problem.


If all sin by nature then, the sin nature is dominant. If not, we would have at least some who would not sin.


Having said the above for the God that I do not believe in, I am a Gnostic Christian naturalist, let me tell you that evil is all human generated. Evil is our responsibility.

Much has been written to explain what I see as a natural part of evolution.

Consider.
First, let us eliminate what some see as evil. Natural disasters. These are unthinking occurrences and are neither good nor evil. There is no intent to do evil even as victims are created.

Evil then is only human to human.
As evolving creatures, all we ever do, and ever can do, is compete or cooperate.
Cooperation we would see as good as there are no victims created. Competition would be seen as evil as it creates a victim. We all are either cooperating, doing good, or competing, doing evil at all times.

Without us doing some of both, we would likely go extinct.

This, to me, explains why there is evil in the world quite well.

Be you a believer in nature, evolution or God, we should all see that what Christians see as something to blame, evil, we should see that what we have, competition, deserves a huge thanks for being available to us.

There is no conflict between nature and God on this issue. This is how things are and should be. We all must do what some will think is evil as we compete and create losers to this competition.

Regards
DL

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Evolutionary theology.

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