[CS-FSLUG] TH The kingdom of Heaven

[Ed Hurst]

Robert W. wrote:
>>I was under the impression grammatically Jesus was saying, "This  
>>Kingdom of which I speak is the sort of thing you find inside  
>>yourself, if you find it at all."
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I was always under the impression that many Jews of Jesus' time  
> expected Messiah to be an earthly king. A deliverer who would drive out  
> the invaders and establish a physical kingdom in their here and now.  
> Could Jesus have been dispelling that perception of Messiah? Entrance  
> into heaven's realm isn't by crossing a physical border. It comes from  
> a change in who we are (our heart).

Indeed, the much ingnored "Messianic Expectations". I was a student of 
an aged ThD whose thesis was one of the better summations of that 
material. Jesus worked awfully hard to beat back that bunch of nonsense. 
That and the perversions of the Alexandrian school of Pharisaism.

-- 
Ed Hurst
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