@SherPoint Ragaz: "Not only does Jesus not bring a new religion, he does not bring any religion at all. One can't make this fact clear enough. He does not want a new religion, but rather a kingdom, a new creation, a new world." Thus, "We must teach spiritual things spiritually," 1 Cor. 2:13
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Copy of tweet here: · and end/ Panikkar: "The ultimate religious fact does not lie in the realm of doctrine or even individual self-consciousness... subordinating reality to mind. The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose." (Lk. 17:20-21)
It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven."