Luk_17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Quoting: B4Birth GNOSTIC GNONSENSE
So if you do not believe the Bible, why are you even discussing it? This is what nonsense is. You proclaim nonsense and yet call yourself "servant of the LORD" and do not believe what the Bible says. Do you even know "the LORD", or "the Lord GOD" and why it is spelled both ways in the Bible? What is the difference between the two?
You're mistaken. I fully BELIEVE what the Bible says.
I DON'T believe oddball interpretations of things said.
The supposition of "within you" would mean that when a person dies, their soul goes "inside" themselves. This is blatantly WRONG.
I did not ask you about the supposition of "within you". I quoted that Jesus said:
Luk_17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is
within you.
That verse needs no interpretation. Jesus simply just meant what He said and you called it Nonsense. Are you calling Jesus a liar. You can't call Jesus a liar and then say you "full BELIEVE what the Bible says". You were not debating my words or even any interpretation that I offered. Then you implied that I offered an interpretation which you call "oddball interpretations". Where is the interpretation that you are referring to?
Folks like you take a single verse about a topic like "the kingdom of God" and proclaim that it's the "be all / end all" of the subject. It isn't.
Quoting: Servant-of-the-LORD What are you talking about and what is your subject matter? What are you addressing? You just injected some thought out of nowhere. And I don't even know what that thought is.
The kingdom of God is the same as the kingdom of heaven.
I suggest that you go and read ALL the passages that use the phrases.
Quoting: Servant-of-the-LORD I would love to discuss that with you some day. But right now I am dealing with pre-trib rapture and the MANSION I am going to be taken to called the New Jerusalem. Why are you switching topics in the middle?
FROM EARLIER POSTI do not know much about Urantia because I am a Christian. I have heard of it but I only know the Bible. the Bible says this:
John 14:2. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Mansions are NOT planets.
Quoting: Servant-of-the-LORD Says who? And by what authority do you speak?
The authority of scripture dictates such.
Where does scripture say that mansions are planets?
It doesn't.
Quoting: Servant-of-the-LORD And where is that authority of scripture that dictates such? _________ I'll wait. Where does scripture say that mansions are NOT planets?
New Jerusalem is 1500 miles square.
LOT'S of room for MANSIONS.
Quoting: Servant-of-the-LORD Hmm 1500 MILES SQ..... sounds like a nice little planet to me. When this comes down from the heavens I can see it being merged with the New Earth. And is this New Jerusalem you are speaking of located in the heavens? Is it just dangling in the air? Or does it have a firmament around it? Does it have trees and vegetation? Are there animals there? Is it in the heavens or the HEAVEN OF HEAVENS? Is this city just tumbling through space? Because we are going to be taken there to live after the pre-trib rapture.
