Comment to 'What exactly is the kingdom of God anyway?'
  • It’s kind of funny the thoughts that race through your head as you read posts like this. On one hand the first though that comes racing through is, “I can’t believe after 2000 years were still debating things like this!” That thought can be rather harsh I know, but sometimes its things like this that I wrestle with. (Just being honest here)

      But the reality is our faith in God is a personal thing and every part of truth must seek deeply into our soul to sprout roots. 

      So it is that in every generation, each person needs to ask these kind of question like “What is the Kingdom of God?” Because after that come the next question, “What is my role in it?”

      You can not accurately answer the second with out answering the first. For some of us it takes a life time to figure out how join in the adventure Jesus has before us. But, then God some figure it out quicker.

      I love Jesus way of explaining the Kingdom, parables. We who want everything laid out line by line with every thing perfect must wrestle with the God of Heaven and Earth who gives and answer so simple a Child can understand it. But we adults must wrestle with it.

      So… are we make things more complicated than it needs to be? Or are we finding hidden Gold that the Lord has buried for us to teach others?

    • Hi Robert - I'm not sure what you read that made you think that this was supposed to be a debate, but since that's how you read it then I am sorry to have caused you any discomfort. My sole goal was, and still remains, to clarify Scripture. After nearly 60 years of not seeing a central theme of the New Testament, and Scripture in general, I genuinely hope that you'll afford me the opportunity to dig deeper into what I've been missing all of these years

      • Sorry Todd, by your response the confusion may be on my end and not yours. I was attempting (and apparently failed) to add a tongue, and cheek bit of thinking to the question.