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• if we really believed that the living God was king on earth as in heaven?
• We have been lured, perhaps by our embarrassment at the literalistic sense of Jesus flying up like a spaceman to a “heaven” located a few miles up within our universe, into ignoring the real meaning both of “heaven” (which is not a place within our universe at all, but God’s place, intersecting with our world in all sorts of ways) and of the ascens...
• The alternative teaching of the Gnostics had proposed that one should replace the very Jewish message of God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven by a very non-Jewish message about a “kingdom” that turned out to be a new form of self-help spirituality. The great second-and third-century Christian teachers insisted, against such new teaching, that God’s ...
• the story of how God became king of the world.
• The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God.