Jesus said "The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you, not in mansions of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I am there -- lift

Not including Bible sources, the following people wrote about Jesus:
* The Jewish historian Josephus (A.D. 37-100)

*Pliny the Younger, imperial Roman Legate of Bythynia - in a letter to Emperor Trajan in A.D. 112

*Tacitus - the important Roman historian

*Suetonius - a Roman historian who compiled a biography of the first twelve Roman emperors in his "Life of Claudius"

*Thallus and Julius Africanus in A.D. 52

*Mara bar Serpion

In addition, there are thousands upon thousands of archaeological findings that point to Jesus existence.

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I'm not saying Caesar Augustus didn't put one hell of a con-job on the planet.

I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble.

The lack of a direct impression of Jesus' Magick Words would be the tell.

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inside YOU is the Truth...






Love is the key to ALL locks:)

I think this is a record for 'oldest' pinned thread!

The 'Kingdom of God' is like the Tao - Everywhere and nowhere, subtle yet conspicuous, earhtly yet transcendent. It flows through everything.

[link to www.hiddenmeanings.com]

That quote isn't found in the Bible. It is a false teaching.

Read carefully:

"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:8-9)

He wasn't saying the kingdom of God is inside you, OP. Other translations say 'in your midst" and "among you".

look at these translations to see

[link to bible.cc]

You have to look at who Jesus was talking to at that very moment. They were the corrupt false religious leaders who were misleading the people. The kingdom of God was certainly not in them! Jesus had called them offspring of satan.

Jesus was talking about himself. He is bringing in the new kingdom or government. The new government was right in front of the corrupt religious leaders. The government was no more in them that the American or any other earthy government is in people right now. Government is around a person like a presence.

Jesus government is not here yet but it will be here one day soon. Satan's government rules for now.

Here is a short commentary

Vincent's Word Studies

Within

Better, in the midst of. Meyer acutely remarks that "you refers to the Pharisees, in whose hearts nothing certainly found a place less than did the ethical kingdom of God." Moreover, Jesus is not speaking of the inwardness of the kingdom, but of its presence. "The whole language of the kingdom of heaven being within men, rather than men being within the kingdom, is modern" (Trench, after Meyer).

WHY IS THIS FRIGGIN BULLSHIT EVEN ALLOWED TO BE PINNED?????

The Buddha never wrote anything down, either. And it doesn't really matter if there was a teacher named Jesus (or Yeshua or Joshua or Ἰησοῦς) or not, because *somebody* collected some followers in the rural Middle East and then the towns, and the teachings stuck with people through oral tradition for several generations before they were collected -- first as the "Sayings of Jesus" (just the quotes used in Matthew Mark and Luke) and then in the letters attributed to the semi-legendary figure of Saul/Paul and then the gospels.

And what the Buddha and the Christ said are remarkably similar, and remarkably resonant even today as these ideas are expressed and felt through nature, meditation and other quiet forms of spirituality.

We are here, in the only paradise we will ever know. This is it. We can make it Heaven or Hell, depending on our own decisions and how we act toward other people and to the world around us, the world that we are literally made from.

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Jesus never said these things.

the "Book of Thomas" is bullshit.

This is not true.

The records of the direct transcriptions of Siddhartha's words have been maintained since his earliest disciples. The chain of custody of these documents is established and unbroken... yes, Naga are people too!

OK Great scholars of biblical standing.Why is it the first 14+ Popal had to buy the position? Why and Exactly what changes took place in the 48 re-writes of the bible up to King James,Why have the most resent found dead sea scrolls not been added to the Great WORD?

Each saying has many meanings at many different levels.
Split a piece of work could be that when you can separate the good from the bad then you have found him.
Lift a stone could be that when you give foregiveness to your enemies then you have lifted the weight off of your shoulders and have found the true freedom which is being with him.

You don't go from the world in 0 CE to the world today without a few revisions to your dogma and it's associated mantras.

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Oh fuck you. More religitard trash.

there are no words to express my joy seeing the true message going mainstream

thanks OP

The eternal truths of the Kingdom of God are found in places like this... everywhere, in all things...






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The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Russian: Царство Божие внутри вас [Tsarstvo Bozhiye vnutri vas]) is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was first published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in his home country of Russia.[1] It is the culmination of thirty years of Tolstoy's Christian thinking, and lays out a new organization for society based on a literal Christian interpretation.
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Tolstoy's relationship with Mohandas Gandhi





The 1st English edition of The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Part II, Chapter 15) that this book "overwhelmed" him and "left an abiding impression." Gandhi listed Tolstoy's book, as well as John Ruskin's Unto This Last and the poet Shrimad Rajchandra (Raychandbhai), as the three most important modern influences in his life.[2] Reading this book opened up the mind of the world-famous Tolstoy to Gandhi, who was still a young protester living in South Africa at the time.

In 1908 Tolstoy wrote, and Gandhi read, A Letter to a Hindu, which outlines the notion that only by using love as a weapon through passive resistance could the native Indian people overthrow the colonial British Empire. This idea ultimately came to fruition through Gandhi's organization of nationwide non-violent strikes and protests during the years circa 1918-1947. In 1909, Gandhi wrote to Tolstoy seeking advice and permission to republish A Letter to a Hindu in his native language, Gujarati. Tolstoy responded and the two continued a correspondence until Tolstoy's death in 1910. The letters concern practical and theological applications of non-violence, as well as Gandhi's wishes for Tolstoy's health. Tolstoy's last letter was to Mohandas Gandhi.[3]

Yes, I did... And I'm sure a lot of GLP'ers did, but really...

There's gotta be some who didn't...

[link to www.amazon.com]

Now here is TRUTH! God is everything or nothing at all! The bible I think is for those who are un-able to open thier minds and need to be told how to think act and,believe. It works for 1 out of 100 of them that otherwise might have nothing.

not the same at all. Our bodies are Temples of the
Holy Spirit, that is true, but the "Gospel of Thomas"
is not the Word of God. It is a piece of Gnostic
literature.

The Kingdom of G-D is His Law's, H-s Holy Day's, H-s methods of Worship, and H-s definition of Love.

NONE of which the new age hippie christianity BS has. Or catholics... or muslims... or mormons...

Narrow path... FEW will find it....(Matt 7:14) "As the days of Noah" (only 8 saved) [Matt 24:37]

WAKE UP SLEEPERS!!!!

The father the son the holy spirit derived from: The father the mother the child.

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