--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gimbel" <babajii_99@> > wrote: > > Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within", also, > > "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be added unto > you". > > This jives perfectly with Maharishi's teaching... > > Robert, s Maharishi your primary source of biblical scholarship these > translations an contextual meanings? > > If I were to ask you where in the Bible says this, and in what > context, could you cite chapter and verse without looking? > > Have you even read Luke 17 to see the context of the statement? > > Are you aware that kingdom of heaven is within can and has also been > translated as the "kingdom of god is amongst us", the reign of heaven > has come upon us.
That's hard to square with the part of the verse that says [the kingdom of God] commeth not with observation. > Are you aware that it is quite reasonable that "Jesus assumes his > hearers understand the Kingdom foundation that was laid in the Hebrew > Scriptures. When Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of God/Kingdom of Heaven > ... he speaks of the time of the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and > Davidic covenants. A time of a restored earth where the faithful will > worship and serve their God forever under the rulership of a righteous > leader of the Davidic line. Jesus also said that his kingdom is not of this world. > This was the Messianic hope of the > prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures and was carried over and echoed in > the words of John the Baptist, Jesus, Peter, Paul and others in the > Greek Scriptures. > > Can you cite any Christian tradition that feels that "kingdom of > heaven within" is a beacon call to transcend via TM? > > Was the passage in Luke 17 about the healing of 10 leepers in anyway > related to the KoH statement in verse 20? > > Does the fact that most of the remaining verses in Chapter 17 after > verses 20-21 are about when the Son of God would be revealed have > anything to do with V 20-21? > > I am sure you are answering yes to these questions, and have > insightful follow-ups for them. Can you share? >
