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"My Kingdom is not of this world"
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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 69049751" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>While the Greek word kosmos (translated as "world") can describe the created order, it had several nuances. The base meaning of kosmos is, in fact, "an arrangement" and it is only by this association that the material universe became called "kosmos" in the early years of Greek philosophy. However the word can also refer to the ordered arrangement of, say, a state, that is a government, or as often used in the New Testament it refers to the present order of how things are today.</p><p></p><p>Christ is saying that His kingdom is not of, it is unlike and not part of, the way kingdoms are here and how they function in the present. The way Christ is king is very different than the way Caesar or Herod were kings. Because God's kingdom--God's royal power and authority--is radically different and unlike the reign of kings, emperors, and rulers as we know them, after all in God's kingdom "the least shall be greatest".</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 69049751, member: 293637"] While the Greek word kosmos (translated as "world") can describe the created order, it had several nuances. The base meaning of kosmos is, in fact, "an arrangement" and it is only by this association that the material universe became called "kosmos" in the early years of Greek philosophy. However the word can also refer to the ordered arrangement of, say, a state, that is a government, or as often used in the New Testament it refers to the present order of how things are today. Christ is saying that His kingdom is not of, it is unlike and not part of, the way kingdoms are here and how they function in the present. The way Christ is king is very different than the way Caesar or Herod were kings. Because God's kingdom--God's royal power and authority--is radically different and unlike the reign of kings, emperors, and rulers as we know them, after all in God's kingdom "the least shall be greatest". -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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