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I like it. http://bycommonconsent.com/2015/05/30/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-reflections-on-gospel-doctrine-18-bccsundayschool/#more-56581 ” class=”bbcode_url”> http://bycommonconsent.com/2015/05/30/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-reflections-on-gospel-doctrine-18-bccsundayschool/#more-56581 Happy Sabbath
Michael Austin always has good stuff. Thank you for sharing. Powerful! Thank you! Some may want to consider the apparent mistranslation in the King James Version. Verse 21 is better rendered in a number of ways:
Quote:New International Versionnor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
New Living TranslationYou won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you.”
English Standard Versionnor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
New American Standard Biblenor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
Holman Christian Standard Bibleno one will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”
International Standard VersionPeople won’t be saying, ‘Look! Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ because now the kingdom of God is among you.”
NET Biblenor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
http://biblehub.com/luke/17-21.htm
The Joseph Smith Translation is also different. It reads “Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God has already come unto you.” A footnote for that verse also reads “Many translations read ‘among’ because the pronoun ‘you’ is plural here in Greek.”Quote:The kingdom of God is within you. This is the key, I believe, to understanding all of the kingdom parables.
With this key in place, all of the other kingdom parables start to make sense. Like a mustard seed, the kingdom of God is an almost imperceptible potentiality planted within us. Like leaven, it raises whatever it comes in contact with, like fish, wheat and tares, and wise and foolish virgins, it exists side by side with its opposites. The kingdom of God is the life that we choose to live when we acknowledge and nourish that which is divine inside of us.
Shawn wrote:A footnote for that verse also reads “Many translations read ‘among’ because the pronoun ‘you’ is plural here in Greek.”
I get what you are saying Shawn. Perhaps that is another key. Perhaps the kingdom of God is not within the individual but instead can only be found within the community, within the way that we band together to become greater than ourselves, we care for the young, old, and less fortunate, we love and are loved. Perhaps we cannot experience the kindom of God alone by ourselves in isolation. Perhaps the kindom of God can olny be found in our relationships with others.
Perhaps as BRM once said, “The noblest concept that can enter the heart of man is the concept that the family unit [human ralationship] continues in eternity, and that salvation [kingdom of God] is a family [communal] affair.”
Good points, Roy. I am thinking that maybe the kingdom of God is wherever Jesus is.
Quote:Matthew 18:20King James Version (KJV)
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
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