Source: Fishing the Abyss
Comments: In one of Ken’s ‘miss-ives’, he tries to discredit the teachings of Jesus about the Kingdom of God beginning temporally by disengenuously quoting only a portion of John 18:36.  Chris reposts an old article of his about the Kingdom of God, directly refuting Ken’s prooftexting with multiple passages of scripture used in context.
Memorable Quotes:

Those who deny the present kingdom deny Jesus’ earthly teaching. Those who deny the future kingdom and its king (via a purely social gospel or universalism) deny Jesus’ sacrifice.  We must understand that the kingdom is here now in this imperfect world – and thus not yet complete in its creation – but it is forcefully advancing (Matthew 11:12) – let us be part of it, rather than casting stones at it.

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