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Originally Posted by zeek

If the kingdom of God is within us as Jesus said didn't Christianity betray this crucial insight early on, whether by transferring the kingdom into the next world world and thereby devaluing this life, or by becoming political and seeking salvation through organizations, sacraments, and the clergy?

The Gospel of Thomas V. (3)

"Yeshua said,
If your leaders tell you, “Look, the kingdom is in heaven,”
then the birds of heaven will precede you.
If they say to you, “It’s in the sea,”
then the fish will precede you.
But the kingdom is inside you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known,
and you will understand that you are children of the living father.
But if you do not know yourselves,
then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty."

V (113)

"His students said to him,
When will the kingdom come?

Yeshua said,
It will not come because you are watching for it.
No one will announce, “Look, here it is,”
or “Look, there it is.”
The father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth
and people do not see it."